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

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

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)

It had come to him in a flash of unusual perceptivity that if he did not seize this moment which her softened mood generously offered for effecting a reconciliation, another opportunity might not present itself.

From Imprudence by Young, F.E. Mills

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 Bierce, Ambrose