Usually means: Perception in judgment and understanding.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. discernment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. discernment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discernment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discernment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discernment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discernment, discernment: Wordnik
  7. discernment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discernment: Wiktionary
  9. discernment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discernment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discernment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Discernment, discernment: Dictionary.com
  13. Discernment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Discernment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. discernment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. discernment: Rhymezone
  17. Discernment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. discernment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. discernment: Free Dictionary
  20. discernment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. discernment: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. discernment: Legal dictionary

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  1. discernment: Encyclopedia

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  2. discernment: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The ability to distinguish; judgement.
noun:  The act of distinguishing between things.
noun:  The ability to distinguish between things.
noun:  The ability to perceive differences that exist.
noun:  The condition of understanding.
noun:  Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
noun:  Perceptiveness.
noun:  The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
noun:  Discretion in judging objectively.

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