discernment
distinctive
contradistinguish
discriminating
diacritic
diacritical
mark
mind
literacy
knifelike
penetrating
piercing
penetrative
shine
sharp
incisive
keen
acute
differentiability
perceptive
decern
pick out
typical
contrast
mark out
discriminative
radar
eugnosia
differentiate
judgment
sagacity
judgement
sagaciousness
discern
know
sever
wisdom
tell the difference
able-mindedness
intercompare
apperceive
secern
similitude
tell
penetration
perspicaciousness
cognoscitively
dipstick
distinctly
perspective
acuity
polymorphism
calling card
subability
description
eye
hermaphrodite
resolution
discerningness
distinguishability
empathy
specialness
distinguishing
insight
peculiarity
distinctiveness
specialty
sapient
speciality
interpretability
attentiveness
sixth sense
sift
fingerprint
might
characteristic
perception
interrelationship
theory of mind
discriminate
interperceptual
sieve
conflate
telling
discerning
rational
identification
catch
up someone's alley
point
distinctive
discriminating
diacritic
diacritical
knifelike
penetrating
piercing
penetrative
sharp
incisive
keen
acute
perceptive
typical
discriminative
distinguishing
sapient
characteristic
interperceptual
rational
cognoscitively
distinctly
discernment
mind
literacy
differentiability
contrast
radar
eugnosia
judgment
sagacity
judgement
sagaciousness
wisdom
able-mindedness
similitude
penetration
perspicaciousness
perspective
acuity
polymorphism
calling card
subability
description
eye
hermaphrodite
resolution
discerningness
distinguishability
empathy
specialness
insight
peculiarity
distinctiveness
specialty
speciality
interpretability
attentiveness
sixth sense
fingerprint
might
characteristic
perception
interrelationship
theory of mind
telling
discerning
identification
catch
point
contradistinguish
mark
shine
decern
pick out
mark out
differentiate
discern
know
sever
tell the difference
intercompare
apperceive
secern
tell
dipstick
sift
discriminate
sieve
conflate
noun
- The ability to distinguish between things.
- The act of distinguishing between things.
- The ability to distinguish; judgement.
- The ability to perceive differences that exist.
- The condition of understanding.
- Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
- The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
- Perceptiveness.
- Discretion in judging objectively.
adj
- Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
- Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
- Characteristic, typical.
- Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
noun
verb
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
noun
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A written character or sign.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
noun
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- Attention, consideration or thought.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
verb
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- To purpose, intend, plan.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To remember.
- To be careful about.
- To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
verb
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To reflect light.
- To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
noun
adj
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- ending in a sharp point
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- harsh
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- dangerously steep
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
- quick and forceful
adj
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
noun
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
adv
verb
- See distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.
- transferred sense
- Decree a person etc. to be or to do something by judicial sentence. (in the phrase “to decern in”, obsolete) To mulct in by decree of court.
- Decree by judicial sentence that something be done.
- intransitive
- with simple object
noun
- the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
- the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
- the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
verb
noun
- A superior ability to detect something.
- A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces
- A type of system using such a method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
- An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.
verb
verb
- To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
- To recognize a distinction or difference between two things.
- To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.
- To make different; to change, modify.
- To calculate the derivative of a function.
- To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
- To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.
noun
noun
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
noun
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
verb
- be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
- be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- know how to do or perform something
- be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
- have fixed in the mind
- have sexual intercourse with
- know the nature or character of
- perceive as familiar
noun
noun
- An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
- A piece of wise advice.
- A group of owls.
- The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
- The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
- The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
- The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
- A group of wombats.
verb
- To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- To instruct or inform.
- To narrate.
- To reveal.
- To convey by speech; to say.
- To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
- To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- To be revealed.
- To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
noun
- A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
- A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
- A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
noun
- the ability to make way into or through something
- an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- clear or deep perception of a situation
- the act of entering into or through something
- the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
- the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
noun
noun
- The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
- A perspective glass.
- A view, vista or outlook.
- The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
- The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
- The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
- A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
adj
noun
- The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
- The feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for an instance of a method to have several definitions.
- The property of certain typed formal systems of allowing for the use of type variables and binders/quantifiers over those type variables; likewise, the property of certain expressions (within such typed formal systems) of making use of at least one such typed variable.
- The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.
- The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.
- The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.
noun
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- A descriptive linguistic survey.
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
- A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
noun
- A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
- A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
- A hermaphrodite brig.
- An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
- An individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
adj
noun
- The act of discerning detail.
- The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- A strong will, determination.
- The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
- The state of being resolute.
- The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- A statement of intent, a vow
- Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
- The act or process of solving; solution.
noun
- A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
- The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
- Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.
- A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
- The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
verb
noun
- The ability to do something.
- Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.
- Physical strength or force.
verb
- simple past tense of may Used to indicate permission in past tense.
- Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
- Even though.
- Used in polite requests for permission
- Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
- simple past tense of may Used to indicate possibility in past tense.
- Used to express certainty.
noun
- a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
- any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
adj
noun
- Conscious understanding of something.
- That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
- Vision (ability)
- The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
- Acuity
adj
- Capable of reasoning.
- Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- Of an algebraic expression, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
- Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae.
- Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- Expressing a physical object.
noun
noun
- The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity (proving or confirming it); identifying and authenticating viewed as a unitary concept in cognition.
- A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
- A particular instance of identifying something.
- A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
- The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).
- The state of being identified.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
prep_phrase
noun
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
English words for 'The ability to distinguish between things.'
As you may have noticed, above you will find words for "The ability to distinguish between things.". Hover the mouse over the word you'd like to know more about to view its definition. Click 
to find a better fitting word. Finally, thanks to ChatGPT, the overall results have been greatly improved.
Recent Queries
main dish
rush of business
summation
price label
withdrawal.
A woman or girl who corrects
A village in Italy
life after death
cardamon
outsider art
artificial flower
a wattle.
the beginning.
woodlice
fatness
hooded.
heavenly being
athletics
usually used for mortgages.
verbal mistake
true bugs
The head
unemployment benefit
soul-searching
Eustachian tube
ear-shaped.
if things go well
not exciting
To take the place of
sleepiness
paintbrush
unpopularity
smiley
confutation
sake cup
completely exhausted
combining
to be on edge
typeface
vandalism
worn
heiress
housing
Not moving
passable
someone
smoke
to caress
diagram
circular