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
And do we, on the other hand, find, by empirical observation of the phenomena around us, anything which indicates the existence of a supernormal perceptivity such as theory would suggest?
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
The note-taking traveller is very apt to forget that the mere act of note-taking upsets his normal perceptivity.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William
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
