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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discern \Dis*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discerned}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Discerning}.] [F. discerner, L. discernere,
     discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See
     {Certain}, and cf. {Discreet}.]
     1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences;
        to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to


        distinguish.
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              To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms.
                                                    --Boyle.
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              A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern
              from a right stone.                   --Robynson
                                                    (More's
                                                    Utopia).
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     2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and
        recognize; as, to discern a difference.
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              And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned
              among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
                                                    --Prov. vii.
                                                    7.
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              Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to
              discern the minute texture of visible objects.
                                                    --Beattie.
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              I wake, and I discern the truth.      --Tennyson.
  
     Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate;
          discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See {Perceive}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discerning \Dis*cern"ing\, a.
     Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discerning
       adj 1: having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a
              discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" [ant: {undiscerning}]
       2: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning
          editor"; "a discreet silence" [syn: {discreet}]
       3: quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"-
          Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {apprehensive}]
       4: able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive;
          "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "discerning":
     acute, apperceptive, appercipient, argute, astute, cogent,
     farseeing, farsighted, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted,
     forethoughtful, gnostic, incisive, insightful, judicious, knowing,
     knowledgeable, longheaded, longsighted, penetrating, perceptive,
     percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous, piercing, provident,
     sagacious, sage, trenchant, understanding
  
  

















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