This skill is used to discern something of a persons character and likely intentions, especially if they are in a stressful situation The skill is normally used when in conversation with someone, or of someone who is personally well known It is possible to use discernment on someone that is known only from a dossier or eyewitness accounts This would be a difficult task at least, and is quite likely to be astounding or impossible depending upon how complete the information is It is a Perception skill
(Fr Prediliction) - is the twelfth sense which enables you to avoid all things antipathetic and to encounter everything sympathetic This sense results in the evolution of Intuition
Discernment is the ability to judge which things of a particular kind are good and which are bad. = judgment
The ability to recognize and to affirm the skills, talents, and spiritual gifts of other people, especially other Christians
The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment
the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
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"
In the context of Christian spirituality, discernment refers to the act of "testing the spirits"--the process of sifting, weighing, and discriminating what is of God and what is not (1 John 4: 1ff) Discernment is an art, a skill and a gift It usually entails four movements: 1) Cultivating an inner disposition of openness, desire, and intention to live in the Spirit of Jesus, 2) Deepening attentiveness to what is happening within and around me/us, 3) Refining discrimination in light of scripture and the Christian tradition as to what is of God and what is not, 4) Making a decision, a judgment, or response to what is revealed
The gift of Discernment is the special ability God gives to certain members of the body of Christ to sense whether a certain behaviour purportedly to be of God is in reality divine (see 1 Corinthians 12: 10, Acts 16: 16-18, 1 John 4: 1-6, Mathew 16: 21-23)
Sorting through all the values, issues, concerns, attitudes, and emotions of everyone concerned in order to select which are the most important to consider
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"