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judgment vs discretion

discretion vs judgment

judgment and discretion both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
judgment Yes No No No
discretion Yes No No No
As nouns, discretion is a hyponym of judgment; that is, discretion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than judgment:
  • judgment: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
  • discretion: knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
Other hyponyms of judgment include eye, common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit, sense, judiciousness, circumspection, discreetness, prudence, indiscreetness, injudiciousness.
judgment (noun) discretion (noun)
(law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it the trait of judging wisely and objectively
the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions refined taste; tact
the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations freedom to act or judge on one's own
an opinion formed by judging something
the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
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