Judgement

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  judgement
       n 1: the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial
            decision; "opinions are usually written by a single
            judge" [syn: {opinion}, {legal opinion}, {judgment}]
       2: an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to
          make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind" [syn: {judgment},


           {mind}]
       3: the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing
          conclusions [syn: {judgment}, {judging}]
       4: ability to make good judgments [syn: {sagacity}, {sagaciousness},
           {judgment}, {discernment}]
       5: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
          and to draw sound conclusions [syn: {judgment}, {sound
          judgment}, {sound judgement}, {perspicacity}]
       6: (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction
          on matters submitted to it [syn: {judgment}, {judicial
          decision}]
       7: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or
          event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
          [syn: {judgment}, {assessment}]

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

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "judgement":
     acumen, adjudication, appraisal, assessment, belief, censure,
     common sense, conclusion, condemnation, criticism, decision,
     decree, determination, disapproval, discernment, discretion,
     discrimination, estimation, evaluation, finding, good sense,
     intelligence, judgment, judiciousness, level-headedness, mind,
     opinion, order, outcome, perception, percipience, perspicacity,
     perspicuousness, prudence, reproof, result, ruling, sagacity,
     sentiment, shrewdness, understanding, upshot, valuation, verdict,
     view, way of thinking, wisdom, wit