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perceptiveness

/per-sep-tiv/US // pərˈsɛp tɪv //UK // (pəˈsɛptɪv) //

感知力,敏锐性,敏锐度,敏锐的洞察力

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
    • : having the power or faculty of perceiving.
    • : of, relating to, or showing perception.

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Examples

  • This is lip-gloss misanthropy packaged as feminist manifesto, clever but not smart, cynical without being perceptive or particularly passionate.

  • Clay is a wonderfully protean performer, as you know if you’ve seen her as a hard-bitten autoworker in Dominique Morisseau’s “Skeleton Crew” at Studio Theatre or as the perceptive housekeeper in “The Little Foxes” on Broadway.

  • “Grand Union,” by Zadie SmithSmith’s first short-story collection is a chance to experiment with form and theme, all while employing the perceptive social commentary that has made her a literary success.

  • It’s eye-opening to listen to a podcast that began in early March, hearing what Rees, Kine and Kimball — three smart, perceptive people — thought was going to happen.

  • Well, first of all, you just weren’t that perceptive, probably, Stephen.

  • All this is not Japanese, but from such accident is Japanese art inspired, with its good luck of perceptiveness.

  • He was there for health and recreation, but, realizing the situation with his quick perceptiveness, he took up the gage of battle.

  • But even he, with all his observant perceptiveness, had failed to penetrate Lilith's magnificent self-command.

  • He was a quick, slight child, with fine perceptiveness, and a cool transitoriness in his interest.

  • This unsophisticated girl did it by an innate perceptiveness that was almost genius.