perceptive
adjectivenounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//pəˈsɛptɪv//
- United States//pɚˈsɛptɪv//
Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
adjective
- 1
Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.
Etymology
From Latin perceptīvus.
noun
- 1
A supposed organ of the brain, dealing with concrete observations of reality.
Then why not subdivide the reflectives and perceptives into distinct organs having special relations to external objects, as well as divide the intellect into a reflective and a perceptive portion?
Forms
- plural
- perceptives
- comparative
- more perceptive
- superlative
- most perceptive
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