perceptive
having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
having the power or faculty of perceiving.
of, relating to, or showing perception.
Origin of perceptive
1Other words for perceptive
Other words from perceptive
- per·cep·tive·ly, adverb
- per·cep·tiv·i·ty, per·cep·tive·ness, noun
- non·per·cep·tive, adjective
- non·per·cep·tive·ly, adverb
- non·per·cep·tive·ness, noun
- non·per·cep·tiv·i·ty, noun
- self-per·cep·tive, adjective
- sem·i·per·cep·tive, adjective
- un·per·cep·tive, adjective
- un·per·cep·tive·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with perceptive
- perceptible, perceptive
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How to use perceptive in a sentence
The note-taking traveller is very apt to forget that the mere act of note-taking upsets his normal perceptivity.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections | William ArcherThese claim such perceptivity of the outer ear and such fineness of the channels that the tune is but a clack when it gets inside.
Journeys to Bagdad | Charles S. BrooksThe opposite error will be committed if the respondent defines perceptivity to be a movement through or by means of the body.
Aristotle | George Grote
British Dictionary definitions for perceptive
/ (pəˈsɛptɪv) /
quick at perceiving; observant
perceptual
able to perceive
Derived forms of perceptive
- perceptively, adverb
- perceptiveness or perceptivity, noun
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