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Orientation vs Perceptive - What's the difference?

orientation | perceptive |

As a noun orientation

is (uncountable) the act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

As an adjective perceptive is

having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

orientation

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
  • (uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings
  • (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end
  • (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction
  • (countable) The ability to orient
  • (countable) An adjustment to a new environment
  • (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment
  • (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait
  • (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space
  • Antonyms

    * disorientation

    Derived terms

    * orientational * orientation course * reorientation * sexual orientation

    perceptive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition
  • He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.

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