Associations to the word «Perceptiveness»

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Wiktionary

PERCEPTIVENESS, noun. The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight

Dictionary definition

PERCEPTIVENESS, noun. A feeling of understanding.
PERCEPTIVENESS, noun. 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".
PERCEPTIVENESS, noun. Perception of that which is obscure.
PERCEPTIVENESS, noun. The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope