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dis⋅cern⋅ment
[di-surn-muh
nt, -zurn-] 
–noun
| 1. | the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding. |
| 2. | the act or an instance of discerning. |
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Discernment
Dis*cern"ment\, n. [Cf. F. discernement.]1. The act of discerning. 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.
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