Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Discernment

Discernment , noun

[Compare French discernement.]

1.
The act of discerning.
2.
The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.