discernment   (Sound)

The noun discernment has 5 senses

• understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy -- (the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect")


• taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness -- (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")


• discernment, perceptiveness -- (perception of that which is obscure)


• sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment -- (the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations)


• discretion, discernment -- (the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment")