English dictionary
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English noun: perceptiveness | |||
| 1. | perceptiveness (feeling) a feeling of understanding | ||
| Synonyms | insight, perceptivity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sensibility | ||
| 2. | perceptiveness (cognition) delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values) | ||
| Samples | Arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success. To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste. | ||
| Synonyms | appreciation, discernment, taste | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | discrimination, secernment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | connoisseurship, culture, delicacy, discretion, style, trend, vertu, virtu, vogue | ||
| Attribute | tasteful, tasteless | ||
| 3. | perceptiveness (cognition) perception of that which is obscure | ||
| Synonyms | discernment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | perception | ||
| 4. | perceptiveness (attribute) the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sensitiveness, sensitivity | ||
| Antonyms | unperceptiveness | ||
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