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Perceptiveness

noun
1.
A feeling of understanding.  Synonyms: insight, perceptivity.
2.
Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values).  Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, taste.  "To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
3.
Perception of that which is obscure.  Synonym: discernment.
4.
The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding.



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"Perceptiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the hills; but did that really mean that she would go there? It was doubtless a ruse to throw the husband off the track. There were scores of places in the mountains, and it was more than probable that she would give Eagle Nest a wide berth. Rossiter patted his bump of perceptiveness and smiled serenely until he came plump up against the realization that she might not come by way of Fossingford at all, or, in any event, she might go whisking through to some station farther north. His speculations came to an end in the shape of a distressing resolution. He would ...
— The Purple Parasol • George Barr McCutcheon



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