Dictionary Definition
perceptiveness
Noun
1 a feeling of understanding [syn: insight, perceptivity]
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" [syn: taste,
appreciation,
discernment]
3 perception of that which is obscure [syn:
discernment]
4 the quality of insight and sympathetic
understanding [ant: unperceptiveness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight