perceptiveness (n.)

  1. a feeling of understanding

    [ Syn: insight , perceptivity ]

  2. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success; to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste

    [ Syn: taste , appreciation , discernment ]

  3. perception of that which is obscure

    [ Syn: discernment ]

  4. the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

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