Definition of Perceptive

Perceptive

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

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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

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
Richard Russo

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
Laura Bush

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley

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

That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream."
Cesar Romero

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
Douglas Sirk

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

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
George Boole

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
Alain Resnais

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

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Perceptive Translations

perceptive in German is wahrnehmend

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