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1. Showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste
   "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur"
    
2. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
   - acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp

1. Recognize or perceive the difference
   - know apart
    
2. Treat differently on the basis of sex or race
   - separate, single out
    
3. Distinguish
   "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish"

See also: appreciative, diacritic, diacritical, discerning, discriminate, discrimination, discriminative, discriminator, discriminatory, eclectic, good, perceptive, selective

Type of: differentiate, discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise [Brit], recognize, secern, secernate, separate, severalise [Brit], severalize, spot, tell, tell apart

Antonym: undiscriminating

Encyclopedia: Discriminate