perceptivity

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In these tasks, a bidding system is an indispensable tool�but so are attention, memory, psychological perceptivity and clear thinking, plus that obscure talent called "card sense."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I could take no credit for my perceptivity since everyone in San Diego knew as well as I that this was no duplicate freak, but the same, the identical, the fearsome grass.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward

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 Young, F.E. Mills

His other large picture, "Interior of a Dumbbell by Night," has the same basic idea without the appearance of it, and gives a very vital sense of the elimination of noumenal perceptivity.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir