discernment

1. n. The act of discerning. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. n. the cognitive condition of someone who understands Source: wordnet

4. n. delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) Source: wordnet

5. n. perception of that which is obscure Source: wordnet

6. n. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations Source: wordnet

7. n. the trait of judging wisely and objectively Source: wordnet

8. 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. Syn. -- 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. Source: webster

9. n:100 n. perception of that which is obscure Source: ecdict

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