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perceptive (adj.)
1650s, from Latin
percept-
, past participle stem of
percipere
(see
perceive
) +
-ive
. In reference to intelligence from 1860. From mid-15c. as the name of a type of optical instrument. Related:
Perceptively
;
perceptiveness
.
