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English Dictionary: Discerning	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discerning adj having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" Antonym(s): undiscerning unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" Synonym(s): discerning, discreet quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne Synonym(s): apprehensive, discerning able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discern \Dis*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discerned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discerning}.] [F. discerner, L. discernere, discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See {Certain}, and cf. {Discreet}.] 1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. --Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. --Prov. vii. 7. Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. --Beattie. I wake, and I discern the truth. --Tennyson. Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See {Perceive}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discerning \Dis*cern"ing\, a. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. --Macaulay.