If you can discern something, you are aware of it and know what it is. You need a long series of data to be able to discern such a trend It was hard to discern why this was happening
detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color" unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence
approval If you describe someone as discerning, you mean that they are able to judge which things of a particular kind are good and which are bad. tailor-made holidays to suit the more discerning traveller. showing the ability to make good judgments, especially about art, music, style etc = discriminating