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say it: di-SURN-muhnt
discernment is a noun meaning "the cognitive condition of someone who understands". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the cognitive condition of someone who understands
“he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect”
delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
“arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success”
“to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste”
perception of that which is obscure
the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
the trait of judging wisely and objectively
“a man of discernment”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for discernment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.