discernment

1. The cognitive condition of someone who understands (synset 105813483)
   "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
   is a type of: knowing - a clear and certain mental apprehension
   subtypes:

   • comprehension - an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)
   • self-knowledge - an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities
   • smattering - a slight or superficial understanding of a subject
   • appreciation, grasp, hold - understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
   • grasping - understanding with difficulty
   • hindsight - understanding the nature of an event after it has happened
   • brainstorm, brainwave, insight - the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
   • realisation, realization, recognition - coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
   same as: apprehension, savvy, understanding
2. Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values) (synset 105757616)
   "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
   tells us about:

   • tasteful - having or showing or conforming to good taste
   • tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste
   is a type of: discrimination, secernment - the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished
   subtypes:

   • connoisseurship, vertu, virtu - love of or taste for fine objects of art
   • style, trend, vogue - the popular taste at a given time
   • delicacy, discretion - refined taste; tact
   • culture - the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
   same as: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste
3. Perception of that which is obscure (synset 105718157)
   is a type of: perception - knowledge gained by perceiving
   same as: perceptiveness
4. The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations (synset 105621958)
   is a type of: sapience, wisdom - ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
   subtypes:

   • eye - good discernment (either visually or as if visually)
   • common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit, sense - sound practical judgment
   • judiciousness - good judgment
   • circumspection, discreetness, discretion, prudence - knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
   • indiscreetness, injudiciousness - lacking good judgment
   same as: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity
5. The trait of judging wisely and objectively (synset 104898205)
   "a man of discernment"
   is a type of: wisdom, wiseness - the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
   subtypes:

   • caution, circumspection - the trait of being circumspect and prudent
   • prudence - discretion in practical affairs
   same as: discretion

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