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

CONGREGATIONALIST, Boston: "They are based upon considerable study of these authors, are highly appreciative in tone, and show a perceptivity of American humor which is yet a rarity among Englishmen."

From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Wilder, Alexander

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 Jackson, Helen Hunt

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