1 (approving) having or showing the ability to see or understand things quickly, especially things that are not obvious:
a highly perceptive analysis / observation / comment * It was very perceptive of you to notice that.
2 connected with seeing, hearing and understanding:
our innate perceptive abilities
perceptively adverb
perceptiveness noun [U]
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