DISCERNMENT Synonyms

• the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision

• an opinion formed by judging something

• the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

• (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it

• the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

• a tapering point

• shrewdness shown by keen insight

• intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

• unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

• the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

• clear or deep perception of a situation

• a feeling of understanding

• the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation

• grasping the inner nature of things intuitively

• the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

• a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

• secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)

• information about recent and important events

• the operation of gathering information about an enemy

• a quick and penetrating intelligence

• a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

• thinness of edge or fineness of point

• the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

• a way of conceiving something

• the process of perceiving

• knowledge gained by perceiving

• becoming aware of something via the senses

• accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

• an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

• the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight

• ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

• the quality of being prudent and sensible

• a feeling of understanding

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• perception of that which is obscure

• the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

• understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• an expression of gratitude

• a favorable judgment

• an increase in price or value

• fearful expectation or anticipation

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• painful expectation

• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

• an opinion formed by judging something

• the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

• (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it

• the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

• the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision

• the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• get the meaning of something

• the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus

• a strong liking

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• a brief experience of something

• a small amount eaten or drunk

• the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth

• a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds

• have flavor; taste of something

• perceive by the sense of taste

• take a sample of

• have a distinctive or characteristic taste

• distinguish flavors

• experience briefly