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Discerning

//dɪˈsɜː.nɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of keen insight or selective judgement; perceptive.

    "The discerning customer will appreciate our new range of quality clothing."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or revealing keen insight and good judgment wordnet
  2. 2
    able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive wordnet
  3. 3
    quick to understand wordnet
  4. 4
    unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    discernment

    "Either his notion weakens, his discernings / Are lethargied"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of discern form-of, gerund, participle, present

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