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Discernment   /dɪsˈərnmənt/   Listen
Discernment

noun
1.
The cognitive condition of someone who understands.  Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding.
2.
Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values).  Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste.  "To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
3.
Perception of that which is obscure.  Synonym: perceptiveness.
4.
The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations.  Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity.
5.
The trait of judging wisely and objectively.  Synonym: discretion.






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"Discernment" Quotes from Famous Books



... trimmings apparently decrease the height, and that vertical lines add to it, those who desire to appear at their best will use discernment in dividing their basques with yokes, or corsage mountings at the bust-line ...
— What Dress Makes of Us • Dorothy Quigley

... spirit of Truth guide you, it will bless you with keener discernment, and clearer understanding, than has been possible for you heretofore. It is when you look for the spirit of religion that you find it and understand it, and the fact that so much has been said against our Bible ...
— The Right Knock - A Story • Helen Van-Anderson

... horse when touched by the whip, be ye active and lively, and by faith, by virtue, by energy, by meditation, by discernment of the law you will overcome this great pain (of reproof), perfect in knowledge and in behaviour, ...
— The Dhammapada • Unknown

... the affair of the preserves, Mr. Wilmot was somewhat cool in his manner toward Julia, who had discernment enough to attribute the change to the right cause. Earnestly did she desire to win back his esteem, and she accordingly cast about for some method by which she could undo what she had done. She could think of no way except to acknowledge her error to Mr. Wilmot and promise to do better in the ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes

... unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity; but it is equally unquestionable, that they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest errors by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise. That branch ...
— American Eloquence, Volume I. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various


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