discernment

(n) the cognitive condition of someone who understands
- he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect
savvy, understanding, apprehension,
(n) delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
- arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success
- to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste
appreciation, perceptiveness, taste,
(n) perception of that which is obscure perceptiveness,
(n) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations sagaciousness, sagacity, judgement, judgment,
(n) the trait of judging wisely and objectively
- a man of discernment
discretion,

savvy understanding apprehension appreciation perceptiveness taste sagaciousness sagacity judgement judgment discretion