'Discernment' definitions:
Definition of 'discernment'
(from WordNet)
noun
The cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" [syn: understanding, apprehension, discernment, 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" [syn: taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness]
noun
Perception of that which is obscure [syn: discernment, perceptiveness]
noun
The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations [syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment]
noun
The trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment" [syn: discretion, discernment]
Definition of 'Discernment'
From: GCIDE
- Discernment \Dis*cern"ment\, n. [Cf. F. discernement.]
- 1. The act of discerning. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'discernment'
From: 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,
- field of vision,
- flair,
- foresight,
- foresightedness,
- horizon,
- incisiveness,
- insight,
- intuition,
- judgment,
- keen sight,
- keenness,
- ken,
- longheadedness,
- longsightedness,
- night vision,
- penetration,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- percipience,
- peripheral field,
- peripheral vision,
- perspicaciousness,
- perspicacity,
- perspicuity,
- perspicuousness,
- photopia,
- power of sight,
- providence,
- purview,
- quick sight,
- range,
- reason,
- rod vision,
- sagaciousness,
- sagacity,
- scope,
- scotopia,
- seeing,
- sense of sight,
- sensibility,
- shrewdness,
- sight,
- sightedness,
- sweep,
- trenchancy,
- twilight vision,
- unobstructed vision,
- vision,
- visual acuity,
- visual field,
- visual sense,
- wit