Synonyms of the word

discernment

• n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
• n. Discrimination.
• n. The ability to distinguish between things.
• n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
• n. The condition of understanding.
• n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
• n. Perceptiveness.
• n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
• n. Discretion in judging objectively.

appreciation

• n. A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
• n. Accurate perception; true estimation.
• n. A rise in value.

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

discretion

• n. The quality of being discreet or circumspect.
• n. The ability to make wise choices or decisions.
• n. The freedom to make one's own judgements.

discrimination

• n. Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between…
• n. The act of recognizing the 'good' and 'bad' in situations and choosing good.
• n. The setting apart of a person or group of people in a negative way, as in being discriminated against.
• n. (sometimes discrimination against) Distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage;…
• n. The quality of being discriminating, acute discernment, specifically in a learning situation; as to show…
• n. That which discriminates; mark of distinction, a characteristic.

judgement

• n. Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of judgment. Sometimes found in the…

judgment

• n. The act of judging.
• n. The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging…
• n. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
• n. (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination,…
• n. (theology) The final award; the last sentence.

knowing

• adj. Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
• adj. Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
• adj. Suggestive of private knowledge.
• adj. Deliberate.
• v. present participle of know.
• n. The act or condition of having knowledge.

perception

• n. Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
• n. Conscious understanding of something.
• n. Vision (ability).
• n. Acuity.
• n. (cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through…

perceptiveness

• n. The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight.

sagaciousness

• n. The state of being sagacious; an acuteness of perception or discernment.

sagacity

• n. (obsolete) Keen sense of smell.
• n. The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute…

sapience

• n. The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

savvy

• adj. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
• v. (informal) To understand.
• interj. (informal) Do you understand?
• n. Shrewdness.

secernment

• n. (physiology) The act or process of secreting.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

understanding

• n. (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is…
• n. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
• n. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
• n. (countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.
• n. (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
• n. (uncountable) Sympathy.
• n. All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
• adj. Showing compassion.
• v. present participle of understand.

wisdom

• n. (uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
• n. (countable) A piece of wise advice.
• n. The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
• n. The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from…
• n. The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
• n. (theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.

wiseness

• n. The state, quality, or measure of being wise; wisdom.