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Meaning of PERCEPTIVENESS

Pronunciation:  pur'septivnes

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
  2. [n]  perception of that which is obscure
  3. [n]  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"
  4. [n]  a feeling of understanding
 
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 Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, insight, perceptivity, taste
 
 Antonyms: unperceptiveness
 
 See Also: connoisseurship, culture, delicacy, discretion, discrimination, perception, secernment, sensibility, sensitivity, style, trend, vertu, virtu, vogue

 

 

 

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