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

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 Bierce, Ambrose

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

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