perceptiveness

1. 1.

   a feeling of understanding

   Synonymsinsightperceptivity

   Broadersensibility
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymstasteappreciationdiscernment

   Broaderdiscrimination

   Narrowervirtuvoguedelicacyculture
3. 3.

   perception of that which is obscure

   Synonymsdiscernment

   Broaderperception
4. 4.

   the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

   Antonymsunperceptiveness

   Broadersensitivity

Other forms of perceptiveness

plural

perceptivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perceptiveness

What does perceptiveness mean?

perceptiveness means "a feeling of understanding". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perceptiveness?

perceptiveness has 5 syllables: per-cep-ti-ve-ness. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for perceptiveness?

Close synonyms include insight, perceptivity, taste, appreciation, discernment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of perceptiveness?

The recorded antonyms are unperceptiveness.

Is perceptiveness a common word?

perceptiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.