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UNPERCEPTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unperceptiveness mean? 

UNPERCEPTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun UNPERCEPTIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the lack of insight and sympathetic understandingplay

  Familiarity information: UNPERCEPTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNPERCEPTIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The lack of insight and sympathetic understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unperceptiveness" is a kind of...):

insensitiveness; insensitivity (the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment)

Antonym:

perceptiveness (the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding)

Derivation:

unperceptive (lacking sensitivity, taste, or judgment)

unperceptive (lacking perception)


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