perceptivity
- 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
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 Roget, Peter Mark
His other large picture, "Interior of a Dumbbell by Night," has the same basic idea without the appearance of it, and gives a very vital sense of the elimination of noumenal perceptivity.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
And do we, on the other hand, find, by empirical observation of the phenomena around us, anything which indicates the existence of a supernormal perceptivity such as theory would suggest?
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
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 Jackson, Helen Hunt
