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Definition of Discernment
1. Noun. The cognitive condition of someone who understands. "He has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
Generic synonyms: Knowing
Specialized synonyms: Comprehension, Self-knowledge, Smattering, Appreciation, Grasp, Hold, Grasping, Hindsight, Brainstorm, Brainwave, Insight, Realisation, Realization, Recognition
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Savvy, Understand, Understand
2. Noun. Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values). "To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
Generic synonyms: Discrimination, Secernment
Specialized synonyms: Connoisseurship, Vertu, Virtu, Style, Trend, Vogue, Delicacy, Discretion, Culture
Attributes: Tasteful, Tasteless
Derivative terms: Perceptive
3. Noun. Perception of that which is obscure.
4. Noun. The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations.
Specialized synonyms: Eye, Common Sense, Good Sense, Gumption, Horse Sense, Mother Wit, Sense, Judiciousness, Circumspection, Discreetness, Discretion, Prudence, Indiscreetness, Injudiciousness
Generic synonyms: Sapience, Wisdom
Derivative terms: Sagacious, Sagacious
5. Noun. The trait of judging wisely and objectively. "A man of discernment"
Generic synonyms: Wisdom, Wiseness
Specialized synonyms: Caution, Circumspection, Prudence
Definition of Discernment
1. n. The act of discerning.
Definition of Discernment
1. Noun. The ability to distinguish; judgement. ¹
2. Noun. Discrimination. ¹
3. Noun. To distinguish between things. ¹
4. Noun. To perceive differences that exist. ¹
5. Noun. The condition of understanding. ¹
6. Noun. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation. ¹
7. Noun. Perceptiveness. ¹
8. Noun. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity. ¹
9. Noun. Discretion in judging objectively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Discernment
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Medical Definition of Discernment
1. 1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment. Synonym: Judgment, acuteness, discrimination, penetration, sagacity, insight. Discernment, Penetration, Discrimination. Discernment is keenness and accuracy of mental vision, penetration is the power of seeing deeply into a subject in spite of everything that intercepts the view, discrimination is a capacity of tracing out minute distinctions and the nicest shades of thought. A discerning man is not easily misled, one of a penetrating mind sees a multitude of things which escape others, a discriminating judgment detects the slightest differences. Origin: Cf. F. Discernement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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