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 Discernment \Dis*cern"ment\, n. [Cf. F. discernement.]
   1. The act of discerning.
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   2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes
      one thing from another; power of viewing differences in
      objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative
      and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity;
      insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the
      want of discernment.

   Syn: Judgment; acuteness; discrimination; penetration;
        sagacity; insight. -- {Discernment}, {Penetration},
        {Discrimination}. Discernment is keenness and accuracy
        of mental vision; penetration is the power of seeing
        deeply into a subject in spite of everything that
        intercepts the view; discrimination is a capacity of
        tracing out minute distinctions and the nicest shades of
        thought. A discerning man is not easily misled; one of a
        penetrating mind sees a multitude of things which escape
        others; a discriminating judgment detects the slightest
        differences.
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