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]