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
The note-taking traveller is very apt to forget that the mere act of note-taking upsets his normal perceptivity.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer
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
CONGREGATIONALIST, Boston: "They are based upon considerable study of these authors, are highly appreciative in tone, and show a perceptivity of American humor which is yet a rarity among Englishmen."
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
It had come to him in a flash of unusual perceptivity that if he did not seize this moment which her softened mood generously offered for effecting a reconciliation, another opportunity might not present itself.
From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young
