perceptiveness


perceptiveness (http://definr.com/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]