discernment

dis·cern·ment

D0254500 (dĭ-sûrn′mənt)n.1. The act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgment.2. Keenness of insight and judgment.

discernment

(dɪˈsɜːnmənt) nkeen perception or judgment

dis•cern•ment

(dɪˈsɜrn mənt, -ˈzɜrn-)

n. 1. the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding. 2. the act or an instance of discerning. [1580–90; < Middle French]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	discernment - the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"savvy, understanding, apprehensionknowing - a clear and certain mental apprehensioncomprehension - an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result); "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"self-knowledge - an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilitiessmattering - a slight or superficial understanding of a subjectappreciation, grasp, hold - understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices"grasping - understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"hindsight - understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; "hindsight is always better than foresight"brainstorm, brainwave, insight - the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situationrealization, realisation, recognition - coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"
	2.	discernment - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"appreciation, perceptiveness, tastediscrimination, secernment - the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguishedconnoisseurship, vertu, virtu - love of or taste for fine objects of artvogue, style, trend - the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"delicacy, discretion - refined taste; tactculture - the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
	3.	discernment - perception of that which is obscureperceptivenessperception - knowledge gained by perceiving; "a man admired for the depth of his perception"
	4.	discernment - the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relationssagaciousness, sagacity, judgement, judgmenteye - good discernment (either visually or as if visually); "she has an eye for fresh talent"; "he has an artist's eye"common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit, sense - sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"judiciousness - good judgmentcircumspection, discreetness, discretion, prudence - knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"indiscreetness, injudiciousness - lacking good judgmentsapience, wisdom - ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
	5.	discernment - the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment"discretionwisdom, wiseness - the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insightcircumspection, caution - the trait of being circumspect and prudentprudence - discretion in practical affairs

discernment

noun judgment, discrimination, perception, understanding, intelligence, awareness, insight, penetration, ingenuity, sharpness, acumen, cleverness, keenness, shrewdness, perspicacity, sagacity, astuteness, acuteness, perceptiveness, clear-sightedness, percipience their lack of discernment and acceptance of inferior quality

discernment

nounSkill in perceiving, discriminating, or judging:acumen, astuteness, clear-sightedness, discrimination, eye, keenness, nose, penetration, perceptiveness, percipience, percipiency, perspicacity, sagacity, sageness, shrewdness, wit.

Translations

DiskriminierungEinsichtUrteilsvermögenδιάκρισηdiscernementdiscernimentosagacia