Associations to the word «Discern»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
DISCERN, verb. (transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
DISCERN, verb. (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
DISCERN, verb. (transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.
DISCERN, verb. (intransitive) To perceive differences.
Dictionary definition
DISCERN, verb. Detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph".
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.