Linguistic advice

[andrewducker]

I need a word that means "a person's connectedness to the world around them, and ability to understand it on an emotional level, allowing them to make intuitive leaps about it."

Basically, I need a name for a stat denoting intelligence that's not pure logic.

Edit: EQ or Emotional Intelligence are too specific to dealing with people. I think that of the suggestions so far I like "insight" the best. Still open to any other suggestions people might have though.

Comments

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Empathy?

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Well the verb you want is apprehend, but the corresponding noun would be apprehension, which in common usage has different connotation.

There is just the phrase 'intuitive intelligence', though that's a bit wanky.

Why?

Also, have you found your rapper yet?

Lxxx

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Id go with empathic.

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Insight?

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Darn, beat me to it :P

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

Insight or wits would be my vote.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Intuition itself, perhaps

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Or EQ, or Emotional Intelligence.

Or Somapathy.

[likeneontubing.livejournal.com]

emotional intelligence, social skills, empathy too i think

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

I would say, in a totally pop psychology way; emotional intelligence.

[andrewducker]

aha! I think you win!

[andrewducker]

Roleplaying game. We hate the word "wisdom" in this context, and were looking for an alternative.

And the rapper was for Julie - I passed the info onto her.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

My family's matriarch says "empathy" not sympathy.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's a phrase, but "good at acquiring clues".

[magenta-wings.livejournal.com]

Perceptiveness?
Perceptivity?
Environmental Perceptivity?

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Sounds a bit like Heinlein's "Grok", or Adam's "Sass" (as in "Sass that hoopy andrewducker, there's a frood who really knows where his towel is") though both are verbs.

So let's noun-ify (ouch!) that "Sass" to be, er, a "sassanach"!

So Grokage perhaps?

[andrewducker]

That would be right. Sympathy means feeling the same as the other person, empathy means understanding their feelings.

People frequently get this the wrong way round :->

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Yes, I read the post, and though "you want a word for 'good at making intuitive leaps'? What's wrong with intuition?" Insight is shinier, but I think intuition fits the concept slightly better to me.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

I got interested in the concept of "empaths" once. Once you read about empaths, you never get sympathy and empathy mixed up.

[fannymagnate.livejournal.com]

Nautism?

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

Not read other offerings...but would "Instincts" work?

[andrewducker]

Intuition wasn't wide enough. I wanted soemthing with slight connotations of wisdom as well. Insightful pretty much covers that for me.

Also, my GM didn't like intuition.

[andrewducker]

*penny drops*

as in negative autism?

Or what Simon Baron-Cohen calls Empathizing (as opposed to Systemizing).

[neferet.livejournal.com]

The first word that comes to my mind is comprehension.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

iawtc

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

The Force.