1. discernment

noun. ['dɪˈsɝːnmənt'] the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations.

Rhymes with Discernment

• internment
• adjournment

Sentences with discernment

1. Noun, singular or mass
A seagull is one of the few birds with very little discernment about what it consumes.

2. Adjective
The rector will assemble a discernment committee, which will in turn examine your qualifications and suitability for priesthood.

Quotes about discernment

1. To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

2. Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
- T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

3. This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.
- David Jeremiah, Until Christ Returns: Living Faithfully Today While We Wait for Our Glorious Tomorrow

2. discernment

noun. ['dɪˈsɝːnmənt'] the trait of judging wisely and objectively.

3. discernment

noun. ['dɪˈsɝːnmənt'] delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values).

4. discernment

noun. ['dɪˈsɝːnmənt'] the cognitive condition of someone who understands.

5. discernment

noun. ['dɪˈsɝːnmənt'] perception of that which is obscure.