| perceptiveness | (n) the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding, Ant. unperceptiveness |
| unperceptiveness | (n) the lack of insight and sympathetic understanding, Ant. perceptiveness |
| discernment | (n) perception of that which is obscure, Syn. perceptiveness |
| insight | (n) a feeling of understanding, Syn. perceptivity, perceptiveness |
| tactual sensation | (n) the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain, Syn. touch perception, tactility, skin perceptiveness |
| taste | (n) delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values), Syn. appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, Example: arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success; to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste |