- of or capable of perception
- able to perceive quickly and easily; having keen insight or intuition; penetrating
Origin of perceptive
Medieval Latin perceptivus
adjective
The definition of perceptive is someone who is intuitive, who understands people or situations and who shows sensitivity.
An example of someone who would be described as perceptive is someone who can read other people's moods.
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perceptive
adjective
- Of or relating to perception: perceptive faculties.
- a. Having the ability to perceive; keen in discernment.b. Marked by discernment and understanding; sensitive.
Related Forms:
- per·cep′tive·ly
adverb
- per′cep·tiv′i·ty per·cep′tive·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more perceptive, superlative most perceptive)
- having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition
- He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.
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perceptive - Medical Definition
adj.
- Of or relating to perception: perceptive faculties.
- Having the ability to perceive; keen in discernment.
- Marked by discernment and understanding; sensitive.
Related Forms:
- per·cep′tive·ly
adv.
- per′cep·tiv′i·ty (pûr′sĕp-tĭv′ĭ-tē) per·cep′tive·ness
n.
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Sentence Examples
- It was amazing how someone could be so perceptive at one moment and clueless the next.
- Those in the military are often rewarded for evasive and perceptive actions that they take.
- It seems that opinions may be formed of inquiry and study alone, which are then constructive; but where intuitive perception or the perceptive imagination is a robust possession, the fruits of research become assimilative - the food of a divining faculty which needs more or less of it according to the power of divination.
- Perception or real cognition is thus conceived as a complex fact, involving data of sense and pure perceptive forms, determined by the category and realized through productive imagination in the schema.
- Such principles are not derived from sensation, but are "suggested" on occasion of sensation, in such a way as to constitute the necessary conditions of our having perceptive experience at all.
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