Associations to the word «Discerning»
Noun
- Palate
- Vocation
- Keen
- Falsehood
- Listener
- Reader
- Knowing
- Observer
- Taste
- Wise
- Drow
- Insight
- Judgment
- Collector
- Wit
- Spirit
- Divine
- Wisdom
- Thou
- Traveller
- Critic
- Epistle
- Mall
- Poly
- Difficulty
- Essence
- Priesthood
- Eye
- Genius
- Fancy
- Audience
- Patron
- Truth
- Discretion
- Peril
- Viewer
- Endeavour
- Divinity
- Suffering
- Manifestation
- Knowledge
- Perfection
- Meaning
- Stall
- Mankind
- Notice
- Revelation
- Disguise
- Talent
- Faculty
- Excellence
- Treatise
- Admiration
- Empress
- Customer
- Beauty
- Theologian
- Bright
- Nature
- Verse
- Eyebrow
- Attribute
- Ear
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
DISCERNING, verb. Present participle of discern
DISCERNING, adjective. Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.
DISCERNING, noun. Discernment
Dictionary definition
DISCERNING, adjective. Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader".
DISCERNING, adjective. Unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence".
DISCERNING, adjective. Quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
DISCERNING, adjective. Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.