perceptiveness
     n 1: a feeling of understanding [syn: {insight}, {perceptivity}]
     2: 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" [syn: {taste}, {appreciation}, {discernment}]
     3: perception of that which is obscure [syn: {discernment}]
     4: the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding [ant: {unperceptiveness}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0