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discernment

noun

1 discernment

The cognitive condition of someone who understands.

synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding.

Roget 498: intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe [U.S.], savvy [U.S.]; intellect etc. 450; nous [Fr.], parts, sagacity, mother wit, ... show more

Roget 441: vision, sight, optics, eyesight.    view, look, espial, glance, ken [Scot.], coup d'oeil [Fr.]; glimpse, glint, peep; gaze, ... show more

Dutch: begrip, benul, besef, notie, onderkenning, verstajem
Polish: przytomność

2 discernment

Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values).

synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste.

Roget 465: discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism; nice perception; perception of difference, appreciation of difference; estimation etc. 466; nicety, refinement; ... show more

Polish: gust, smak

3 discernment

Perception of that which is obscure.

synonym: perceptiveness.

4 discernment

The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations.

synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity.

Roget 850: taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety etc. (discrimination) ... show more

5 discernment

The trait of judging wisely and objectively:
— A man of discernment.

synonym: discretion.


Moby thesaurus: acuity, acumen, acuteness, apperception, astuteness, clear sight, cogency, color vision, cone vision, critical discernment, day vision, daylight vision, discrimination, eye, eye-mindedness, eyesight, farseeingness, farsight, farsightedness, field of view ... show more.

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