perceptivity
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We hope that when the state of the industry improves, your perceptivity and feel for a complex situation will be employed to do the story of the recovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was religious of soul; he had a sort of transcendental perceptivity, so to speak, which kept him more alive to the comforts of religion than to its obligations.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
His failure would be no indictment either of his perceptivity or of the merit of the work of art.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
It had come to him in a flash of unusual perceptivity that if he did not seize this moment which her softened mood generously offered for effecting a reconciliation, another opportunity might not present itself.
From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young
Through his prodigious emotional perceptivity he has the power of feeling and making us feel some strange, perverse accident of fate, destructive of the individual—of making us feel it to be real and terrible.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
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