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Definitions: Perceptiveness |
PerceptivenessNoun1. A feeling of understanding. 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". 3. Perception of that which is obscure. 4. The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perceptiveness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
Synonyms: PerceptivenessSynonyms: appreciation (n), discernment (n), insight (n), perceptivity (n), taste (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unperceptiveness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Perceptiveness |
| English words defined with "perceptiveness": inept ♦ skin perceptiveness ♦ tactless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "perceptiveness": BLUSH. (references) |
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| "Perceptiveness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perceptiveness" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "perceptiveness": skin perceptiveness. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "perceptiveness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vnímavost (open mindedness, openness, perception, receptivity, susceptibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | perspicacité (perception, perspicacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scharfsinnigkeit (astuteness, sharpness, subtlety), erkenntnisreichtum, einsichtigkeit, einfühlsamkeit (sensitiveness), aufmerksamkeit (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention, attentiveness, heedfulness, mindfulness, regard, thoughtfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντιληπτικότησ (percipiece), διορατικότησ (perspicacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טביעת עין (eye memory, perception, recognition at a glance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erceptivenesspay perceptivo (perceptive, percipient). (various references) receptivitate (receptivity). (various references) восприимчивость (acquisitiveness, impressionability, open mindedness, perceptivity, receptiveness, receptivity, recipiency, sensibility, susceptibility, susceptibleness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "perceptiveness": perceptivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "perceptiveness": imperceptiveness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "perceptiveness": imperceptivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Perceptiveness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preceptiveness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-n-p-p-r-s-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: receptiveness. | |
-2 letters: perspectives. | |
-3 letters: persistence, perspective. | |
-4 letters: creepiness, epicenters, perceptive, preceptive, presentees, reinspects, respective, vespertine. | |
-5 letters: creepiest, epicenter, erectness, eternises, perceives, precisest, prentices, prescient, presences, presentee, pretences, pretenses, princesse, receptive, recessive, reinspect, reinvests, sceneries, secretins, secretive, seventies, sincerest, sirventes, tricepses, virescent. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-n-p-p-r-s-s-t-v" | |
+2 letters: imperceptiveness, perceptivenesses. | |
+4 letters: appreciativenesses, imperceptivenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 63 65 70 74 69 76 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. -.-. . .--. - .. ...- . -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r c e p t i v e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 0076 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071846971828675887180718585 |
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