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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Intelligence
acuity
acumen
agility
apt
aptness
brain
gumption
highbrow
horse sense
hyper-intelligent
imaginative
perceptively
percipient
percipiently
perspicacious
perspicaciously
perspicacity
profundity
whip-smart
wisdom

Examples of discernment

discernment
The discernment and deployment of deception and indirection required in courtship prepared men for courtly existence as a whole.
Such progress involves an improvement of vision (where vision is a metaphor for any kind of discernment of the world).
The consultant brought this plus respect for the consultee's "discernment" of the client's situation and the consultee's "familiarity" with adoptions law and practice.
It can be applied only if the evidence is independent and refers to the same frame of discernment.
Within this framework, of course, the judgment of a person's moral goodness depends on the discernment of what is characteristically human.
Moral progress is possible, but advance will always be piecemeal and constrained by the moral pilgrim's prior (unavoidably flawed) quality of discernment.
To observe, openly, without judgement, and then to swing capriciously from observation to discernment, and not to be bothered by the difference.
Aiding discernment of the type of situation at hand, the proverb can change the hearer's reaction to it.
Difficult as it is to acquire, discernment is nonetheless insufficient for an attentive disposition.
The consultant did not seek to emulate the consultee's discernment and experience.
Sometimes this discernment involved letting go of the sense that one has final authority or power to affect the outcomes through a decision.
The discernment of two types of warrant is essential for her because her model of burden of proof relies on it.
Firstly, she treats goodness as in some ultimate sense beyond any conceivable discernment.
We consider our results to be in good agreement with these, given the lowfrequency nature of the instability, which makes the discernment of unsteadiness difficult.
The discernment of appearance from reality was held to be impossible, or at least very difficult, for the vulgar or common sort of people.
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