noun
1. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
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arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success
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to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste
• Syn: ↑taste, ↑appreciation, ↑discernment
• Derivationally related forms: ↑perceptive
• Hypernyms: ↑discrimination, ↑secernment
• Hyponyms:
2. perception of that which is obscure
• Syn: ↑discernment
• Derivationally related forms: ↑perceptive, ↑discern (for: ↑discernment)
• Hypernyms: ↑perception
3. a feeling of understanding
• Syn: ↑insight, ↑perceptivity
• Derivationally related forms: ↑perceptive (for: ↑perceptivity), ↑perceptive
• Hypernyms: ↑sensibility
4. the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
• Ant: ↑unperceptiveness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑perceptive
• Hypernyms: ↑sensitivity, ↑sensitiveness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.