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discernment - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | discernment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perception |
| Synonyms: | acumen, insight, judgment, understanding |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alertness, appreciation, apprehension, attention, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, understanding, acquaintanceship, aliveness, attentiveness, bodhi, mindfulness, sentience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuition |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, insight, omen, penetration, perception, precognition, premonition, psyche, sixth sense*, telepathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cleverness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, ingenuity |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, calculation, dexterity, discernment, flair, gift, gumption, intelligence, quickness, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, skill, talent, wisdom, wit, brains, canniness, quick wit, resourcefulness, sharpness, smartness |
| Antonyms: | foolishness, ignorance, stupidity, naievety, senselessness |
| Main Entry: | cognizance/cognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, reasoning, recognition, regard, percipience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | comprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awareness, capacity, cognizance, conception, discernment, double take*, grasp, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, perception, realization, sense, take*, aha, apperception, prehension, slow take |
| Antonyms: | mistake, misunderstanding, incomprehension, misinterpretation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution, judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, attention, calculation, care, concern, consideration, deliberation, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, foresight, forethought, gumption, heed, maturity, observation, perspicacity, precaution, presence of mind, providence, prudence, responsibility, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, wisdom, canniness, carefulness, chariness, circumspection, considerateness, good sense, heedfulness, judiciousness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | elegance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
| Synonyms: | breeding, charm, class, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, felicity, gentility, grace, grandeur, hauteur, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, polish, politeness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, symmetry, courtliness, exquisiteness, good taste, gracefulness, lushness, noblesse, ornateness, poshness, sumptuousness, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | roughness, ugliness, crudeness, inelegance, poor taste |
| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | know-how, maneuver |
| Synonyms: | acumen, adroitness, artifice, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket*, run-around*, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile, adeptness, artfulness, big stick, craftiness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foresight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, care, caution, clairvoyance, discernment, discretion, economy, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity, canniness, carefulness, circumspection, discreetness, far-sightedness, long-sightedness, prenotion |
| Antonyms: | hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, knack, mature, originality, perspicacity, power, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, Einstein, aptness, brilliance, inventiveness, percipience, precocity, superability |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | gumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, initiative |
| Synonyms: | ability, acumen, astuteness, cleverness, discernment, enterprise, horse sense*, industry, judgment, perspicacity, sagacity, savvy, sense, shrewdness, spirit, wisdom, wit, commonsense, get-up-and-go, good sense, perspicaciousness, resourcefulness, sagaciousness |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, naivety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuitiveness, awareness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, click*, comprehension, discernment, divination, drift*, intuition, judgment, observation, penetration, perception, perspicacity, sagacity, sapience, shrewdness, understanding, vision, wisdom, perceptivity, sagaciousness, sageness, wavelength |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interpretation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | analysis, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, clarification, comprehension, discernment, explanation, grasp, grip, insight, judgment, knowing, meaning, perception, reading, slant, translation |
| Main Entry: | intuition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, clairvoyance, discernment, divination, feeling*, foreknowledge, gut reaction*, hunch*, inspiration, instinct, nose*, penetration, perception, premonition, presentiment, second sight*, sixth sense*, innate knowledge, intuitiveness, perceptivity |
| Antonyms: | knowledge, reason, reasoning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding, idea |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, approach, attention, attitude, awareness, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, discernment, feeling, flash, grasp, image, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, observation, opinion, perspicacity, picture, plan, realizing, recognition, sagacity, sensation, sense, study, taste, thought, viewpoint, apprehending, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, intellection |
| Main Entry: | precognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clairvoyance |
| Synonyms: | ESP, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, foresight, insight, intuition, omen, penetration, perception, prediction, premonition, prophecy, psyche, second sight, sixth sense*, telepathy, extra sensory perception, fortune-telling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sagacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wisdom |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, experience, foresight, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, sapience, sense, shrewdness, understanding, brains, clear thinking, good judgment, levelheadedness, perceptiveness, sageness |
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