perceptive
adjective
having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition.
perceptivity
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a word derived from
perceptive.
Example Sentences
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We hope that when the state of the industry improves, your perceptivity and feel for a complex situation will be employed to do the story of the recovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even on the Turkish vazírs and ministers and the grandees of Baghdád he bestowed gifts and favors; and for intelligence and perceptivity he had no equal.
From Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá
I could take no credit for my perceptivity since everyone in San Diego knew as well as I that this was no duplicate freak, but the same, the identical, the fearsome grass.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
Physical Sensibility -- N. sensibility; sensitiveness &c. adj.; physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics; moral sensibility &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
She was religious of soul; he had a sort of transcendental perceptivity, so to speak, which kept him more alive to the comforts of religion than to its obligations.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
