discernment
Noun
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is a type of: knowing - a clear and certain mental apprehensionsubtypes:
- 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
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tells us about:is a type of: discrimination, secernment - the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguishedsubtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: perception - knowledge gained by perceivingsame as: perceptiveness
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is a type of: sapience, wisdom - ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insightsubtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: wisdom, wiseness - the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insightsubtypes:
- caution, circumspection - the trait of being circumspect and prudent
- prudence - discretion in practical affairs
same as: discretion
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