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
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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
His failure would be no indictment either of his perceptivity or of the merit of the work of art.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
These claim such perceptivity of the outer ear and such fineness of the channels that the tune is but a clack when it gets inside.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
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