Origin: Germanic Old English suffix
Perceptiveness has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
a feeling of understanding
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"
perception of that which is obscure
the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight