PERCEPTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perceptiveness mean? 

• PERCEPTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun PERCEPTIVENESS has 4 senses:

1. a feeling of understanding

2. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)

3. perception of that which is obscure

4. the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

  Familiarity information: PERCEPTIVENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERCEPTIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

insight; perceptiveness; perceptivity

Hypernyms ("perceptiveness" is a kind of...):

sensibility (refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions)

Derivation:

perceptive (having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment)

perceptive (of or relating to perception)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste

Context example:

to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste

Hypernyms ("perceptiveness" is a kind of...):

discrimination; secernment (the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished)

Attribute:

tasteful (having or showing or conforming to good taste)

tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perceptiveness"):

connoisseurship; vertu; virtu (love of or taste for fine objects of art)

style; trend; vogue (the popular taste at a given time)

delicacy; discretion (refined taste; tact)

culture (the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group)

Derivation:

perceptive (of or relating to perception)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Perception of that which is obscure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

discernment; perceptiveness

Hypernyms ("perceptiveness" is a kind of...):

perception (knowledge gained by perceiving)

Derivation:

perceptive (having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("perceptiveness" is a kind of...):

sensitiveness; sensitivity (the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment)

Antonym:

unperceptiveness (the lack of insight and sympathetic understanding)

Derivation:

perceptive (having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment)