discernment
1. 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, perceptiveness • Derivationally related forms: perceptive (for: perceptiveness) • Hypernyms: discrimination, secernment • Hyponyms: virtu, vertu, connoisseurship, vogue, trend, style, delicacy, discretion, culture • Attrubites: tasteful, tasteless 2. the cognitive condition of someone who understands - he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect • Syn: understanding, apprehension, savvy • Derivationally related forms: savvy (for: savvy), apprehend (for: apprehension), understand (for: understanding) • Hypernyms: knowing • Hyponyms: comprehension, self-knowledge, smattering, appreciation, grasp, hold, grasping, hindsight, insight, brainstorm, brainwave, realization, realisation, recognition 3. perception of that which is obscure • Syn: perceptiveness • Derivationally related forms: perceptive (for: perceptiveness), discern • Hypernyms: perception 4. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations • Syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement • Derivationally related forms: sagacious (for: sagaciousness), sagacious (for: sagacity) • Hypernyms: wisdom, sapience • Hyponyms: eye, common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit, judiciousness, discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudence, injudiciousness, indiscreetness 5. the trait of judging wisely and objectively - a man of discernment • Syn: discretion • Hypernyms: wisdom, wiseness • Hyponyms: circumspection, caution, prudence
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