discernment – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
discernment
n.
understanding, insight, perception
Discernment
Discernment is the ability to obtain sharp
perceptions or to judge well (or the activity of so doing). In the case of
judgement, discernment can be
psychological or
moral in nature. In the sphere of judgement, discernment involves going past the mere perception of something and making nuanced judgments about its properties or qualities. Considered as a
virtue, a discerning individual is considered to possess
wisdom, and be of good judgement; especially so with regard to subject matter often overlooked by others.
discernment
Noun
1. the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
(synonym) understanding, apprehension, savvy
(hypernym) knowing
(hyponym) comprehension
2. 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) taste, appreciation, perceptiveness
(hypernym) discrimination, secernment
(hyponym) virtu, vertu, connoisseurship
(attribute) tasteful, in good taste(p)
3. perception of that which is obscure
(synonym) perceptiveness
(hypernym) perception
(derivation) recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
4. ability to make good judgments
(synonym) sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement
(hypernym) wisdom, sapience
(hyponym) eye
5. the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment"
(synonym) discretion
(hypernym) wisdom, wiseness
(hyponym) circumspection, caution
Discernment
(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.
(n.)
The act of discerning.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
discernment
Synonyms and related words:
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,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
