being quick to understand; being able to distinguish
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Perceptiveness Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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 [ant: unperceptiveness]
Noun
1. a feeling of understanding
(synonym) insight, perceptivity
(hypernym) sensibility
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"
(synonym) taste, appreciation, discernment
(hypernym) discrimination, secernment
(hyponym) virtu, vertu, connoisseurship
(attribute) tasteful, in good taste(p)
3. perception of that which is obscure
(synonym) discernment
(hypernym) perception
4. the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
(antonym) unperceptiveness
(hypernym) sensitivity, sensitiveness
