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perceptiveness

noun

the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

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Word length
14
Starts with
P
Ends with
S
Contains
ER
Scrabble score
23
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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noun

  1. the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

noun

  1. perception of that which is obscure

noun

  1. delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

    “arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success”

noun

  1. a feeling of understanding

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Example Sentences

arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success
to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste

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