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Perceptiveness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Perceptiveness has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a feeling of understanding

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"

3

perception of that which is obscure

4

the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

5

The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight

Related Terms
Antonyms
unperceptiveness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
sensibility discrimination perception sensitivity
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
virtu vogue delicacy culture
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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