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1. The cognitive condition of someone who understands
   "he has virtually no discernment of social cause and effect";
   - understanding, apprehension, savvy
    
2. Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
   - taste, appreciation, perceptiveness
    
3. Perception of that which is obscure
   - perceptiveness
    
4. The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
   - sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement
    
5. The trait of judging wisely and objectively
   "a man of discernment";
   - discretion

Derived forms: discernments

See also: tasteful, tasteless, tasty [US, informal]

Type of: discrimination, knowing, perception, sapience, secernment, wisdom, wiseness

Encyclopedia: Discernment