4 definitions found 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. [1913 Webster] To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster] 2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. [1913 Webster] And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. --Prov. vii. 7. [1913 Webster] Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. --Beattie. [1913 Webster] I wake, and I discern the truth. --Tennyson. Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See {Perceive}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Discerning \Dis*cern"ing\, a. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 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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