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DISCERNING
discerning
(adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; “a discerning critic”; “a discerning reader”
discerning
(adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; “discerning taste”; “a discerning eye for color”
apprehensive, discerning
(adjective) quick to understand; “a kind and apprehensive friend”- Nathaniel Hawthorne
discerning, discreet
(adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; “a discerning editor”; “a discreet silence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
discerning
present participle of discern
Adjective
discerning (comparative more discerning, superlative most discerning)
Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.
Noun
discerning (plural discernings)
discernment
Anagrams
• rescinding
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*cern"ing, a.
Definition: Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Macaulay.
DISCERN
Dis*cern", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discerned; p. pr. & vb. n. Discerning.] Etym: [F. discerner, L. discernere, discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See Certain, and cf. Discreet.]
1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. Robynson (More's Utopia).
2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. Prov. vii. 7. Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. Beattie. I wake, and I discern the truth. Tennyson.
Syn.
– To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See Perceive.
Dis*cern", v. i.
1. To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood. More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. Jonah iv. 11.
2. To make cognizance. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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