DISCERNMENT
Definition:
- [noun] the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
Synonyms: understanding, apprehension, savvy
- [noun] 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"
Synonyms: taste, appreciation, perceptiveness
- [noun] perception of that which is obscure
Synonyms: perceptiveness
- [noun] ability to make good judgments
Synonyms: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement
- [noun] the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment"
Synonyms: discretion
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Related Words:
- comprehension
- self-knowledge
- smattering
- appreciation, grasp, hold
- grasping
- hindsight
- insight, brainstorm, brainwave
- realization, realisation, recognition
- virtu, vertu, connoisseurship
- vogue, trend, style
- delicacy, discretion
- culture
- eye
- common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
- judiciousness
- discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudence
- injudiciousness, indiscreetness
- circumspection, caution
- prudence
