perceptivity

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I wasted no more time gazing at it, but hurried away after hardly more than a minute's inspection I could take no credit for my perceptivity since everyone in San Diego knew as well as I that this was no duplicate freak, but the same, the identical, the fearsome grass.

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  1. The character of being perceptive; the power of perception or thinking; perception. Perceptivity, or the power of perception. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxi. 73.

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  • Of course, we weren't expecting startling perceptivity from someone who had previously authored "Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess," and we realize that "Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven" is by no means striving to be high literature, but even as one shallow girl's memoir it fails to please. —  Shanghaiist
  • This poem from Sherman Alexie's "Face" (Hanging Loose Press, 159 pp., $28 hardcover, $18 paperback, www. hangingloosepress.com) is modest in scope yet big in its focus on father-son dynamics, as it raises the question: How long before a parent's godlike status is shattered by a child's perceptivity? —  The Seattle Times
  • It's a symptom of a lack of trust in the readers perceptivity. —  Pharyngula
  • PZ on emoticons: It's a symptom of a lack of trust in the readers perceptivity. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Any acquired insight or accrued perceptivity is the sole responsibility of the nescient explorer who ventures forth into this conventicle, as are any objections or frustrations, confusions or misinterpretations realized herein. —  From My Position... On the way!
 

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