- understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy - the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
--1 is a kind of knowing
--1 has particulars:comprehension; self-knowledge; smattering; appreciation, grasp, hold; grasping; hindsight; insight, brainstorm, brainwave; realization, realisation, recognition - taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness - 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"
--2 is a kind of discrimination, secernment
--2 has particulars:virtu, vertu, connoisseurship; vogue, trend, style; delicacy, discretion; culture - discernment, perceptiveness - perception of that which is obscure
--3 is a kind of perception
Derived form: verb discern1 - sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment - ability to make good judgments
--4 is a kind of wisdom, sapience
--4 has particulars:eye; common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit; judiciousness; discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudence; injudiciousness, indiscreetness - discretion, discernment - the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment"
--5 is a kind of wisdom, wiseness
--5 has particulars: circumspection, caution; prudence