perceptiveness n 1: a feeling of understanding [syn: {insight}, {perceptivity}] 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" [syn: {taste}, {appreciation}, {discernment}] 3: perception of that which is obscure [syn: {discernment}] 4: the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding [ant: {unperceptiveness}]