perceptivity

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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

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

I could take no credit for my perceptivity since everyone in San Diego knew as well as I that this was no duplicate freak, but the same, the identical, the fearsome grass.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward

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)

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