Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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perceptiveness | Yes | No | No | No |
sensitivity | Yes | No | No | No |
perceptiveness (noun) | sensitivity (noun) |
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the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding | the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences |
delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment |
perception of that which is obscure | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation |
a feeling of understanding | sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) |
susceptibility to a pathogen |