PERCEPTIVENESS
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)
Meaning:
A feeling of understanding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
perceptiveness; perceptivity; insight
Hypernyms ("perceptiveness" is a kind of...):
sensibility (refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions)
Meaning:
Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
perceptiveness; discernment; appreciation; taste
Context examples:
arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success / 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)
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)
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)
