discernment

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noun

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

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  discretion, sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, perceptiveness, taste, appreciation, understanding, apprehension, savvy