SECERNMENT Synonyms

• a group of people or things arranged by class or category

• the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

• the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

• the boundary of a specific area

• a conceptual separation or distinction

• a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes

• the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function

• (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• perception of that which is obscure

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the trait of judging wisely and objectively

• a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes

• high status importance owing to marked superiority

• a distinguishing difference between similar things or people

• an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority

• the act of designating or identifying something

• evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing

• the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established

• the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

• the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)

• the state of lacking unity

• coming apart

• the distance between things

• sorting one thing from others

• the social act of separating or parting company

• the space where a division or parting occurs

• the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)

• (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)

• the act of dividing or disconnecting

• the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance

• a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell