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
These claim such perceptivity of the outer ear and such fineness of the channels that the tune is but a clack when it gets inside.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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 Ambrose Bierce
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 Helen Hunt Jackson
