| Noun | 1. | perceptiveness - a feeling of understandingsensibility - refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility" | |
| 2. | perceptiveness - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"vogue, trend, style - the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own" culture - the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group | |
| 3. | perceptiveness - perception of that which is obscureperception - knowledge gained by perceiving; "a man admired for the depth of his perception" | |
| 4. | perceptiveness - the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding | |