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discernment
(mass) | discernment
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discernment
(encz) | discernment,soudnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Discernment
(gcide) | Discernment \Dis*cern"ment\, n. [Cf. F. discernement.]
1. The act of discerning.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
discernment
(wn) | discernment
n 1: the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has
virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
[syn: understanding, apprehension, discernment,
savvy]
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" [syn: taste, appreciation, discernment,
perceptiveness]
3: perception of that which is obscure [syn: discernment,
perceptiveness]
4: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between
relations [syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment,
judgement, discernment]
5: the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of
discernment" [syn: discretion, discernment] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
discernment
(mass) | discernment
- súdnosť |
discernment
(encz) | discernment,soudnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
discernment
(wn) | discernment
n 1: the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has
virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
[syn: understanding, apprehension, discernment,
savvy]
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" [syn: taste, appreciation, discernment,
perceptiveness]
3: perception of that which is obscure [syn: discernment,
perceptiveness]
4: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between
relations [syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment,
judgement, discernment]
5: the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of
discernment" [syn: discretion, discernment] |
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