From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdiscernmentdi‧scern‧ment /dɪˈsɜːnmənt $ -ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] formal 1 TASTE IN CLOTHES, MUSIC ETCthe ability to make good judgments about people or about art, music, style etc the woman’s taste and discernment2 when you notice or understand something the discernment of opportunities
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discernment• At the lexical level the frame of discernment consists of words expressed as ordered sets of phonemes.• But what is constituted by consciousness is the at least partial discernment of limitation.• According to the first view, inspiration is an enhancement of natural, rational discernment, not a suspension or abolition.• Some discernment she had, however, for had she not made most complimentary remarks about his filets de sole Murat? 