1. (

• insight ,
• perceptiveness ,
• perceptivity

) a feeling of understanding ;

2. (

• taste ,
• appreciation ,
• discernment ,
• perceptiveness

) delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste" ;

3. (

• discernment ,
• perceptiveness ,

) perception of that which is obscure ;

4. (

• perceptiveness

) the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding ;