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Meanings of perceptiveness in English

Portuguese
sabor
Catalan
apreciació
Spanish
gusto

Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)

sabor

A feeling of understanding.

The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding.

Usage of perceptiveness in English
1
Essentially, all men are fickle, like you; but not with such perceptiveness.'
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament
2
Right now I was hoping for a little less sophistication in his perceptiveness.
Acts of nature
3
This unsophisticated girl did it by an innate perceptiveness that was almost genius.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
4
He regarded her with a disheartening mixture of disgust and perceptiveness.
The irish warrior
5
In other respects, I trusted to what we call women's instinct, women's perceptiveness.
The Crown of Life
6
The drama of the smart kid whose intelligence and perceptiveness don't translate into action.
The new yorker
7
They were mesmerised by one another, Harry enthralled by her beauty, sophistication and perceptiveness.
News.com.au
8
In her rosy face faint lines had traced themselves, as if vaguely some new perceptiveness troubled her.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
9
The guarantee for spiritual perceptiveness: to take Jesus as the Lord of the conscience, the heart, the will.
The Relations Between Religion and Science / Eight Lectures Prea...
10
This allows for a sturdier sense of vision and perceptiveness of how you can build the future you want.
Ebony
11
Despite her recent show of perceptiveness, Isobel couldn't see Nikki picking up the clue phone to get the message.
Nevermore
12
His usual perceptiveness was dulled by his own sorrow; he didn't realize she was suffering from more than grief.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
13
One look in your eyes, and anyone with any perceptiveness at all can see that the verdict's already in.
Daniel's desire
14
Being intuitive meant that one had a gift of insight, a kind of natural perceptiveness that was not derived from experience.
The new yorker
15
She talks about her characters in a way that makes you feel your own perceptiveness is being worked like a muscle.
The Guardian
16
He felt, with his unerring perceptiveness, that young ladies do not care to receive young gentlemen in the apron of a Georgiana.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
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Portuguese
sabor
Perceptiveness through the time