discernment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: discernment	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for discernment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discernment n the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" Synonym(s): understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy 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" Synonym(s): taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness perception of that which is obscure Synonym(s): discernment, perceptiveness the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations Synonym(s): sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment" Synonym(s): discretion, discernment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discernment \Discern"ment\, n. [Cf. F. discernement.] 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.