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perceptive

 adjective
     
per‧cep‧tive
someone who is perceptive notices things quickly and understands situations, people's feelings etc well - used to show approval:
a perceptive young man
highly perceptive comments
You're right. That's very perceptive of you.
—perceptively adverb
—perceptiveness noun [uncountable]
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