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1. Freedom to act or judge on one's own
    
2. Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
   "the servants showed great tact and discretion"
   - discreetness, circumspection, prudence
    
3. Refined taste; tact
   - delicacy
    
4. The power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
   - free will
    
5. The trait of judging wisely and objectively
   "a man of discretion"
   - discernment

Derived forms: discretions

See also: discretionary

Type of: appreciation, discernment, judgement, judgment, liberty, perceptiveness, power, powerfulness, sagaciousness, sagacity, taste, wisdom, wiseness

Encyclopedia: Discretion