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Definition of Perceptive

Perceptive

  1. Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

Perceptive Quotations

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.
Thomas Szasz

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
Christopher Meloni

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
Ashley Judd
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Perceptive Translations

perceptive in German is wahrnehmend

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