judgment
/ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mɪnt/ noun
Forms judgments judgement iugement iudgement iudgment iudgemente iudgmente
- noun The act of judging.
- noun The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely. “a man of judgment / a man of good judgment”
- noun The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
- noun (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- noun (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
Synonyms
adjudication discernment sense estimate thinking verdict award censure choice opinion conclusion decision deduction determination ergotism illation inference judgement/judgment mind result judgement assessment judicial decision judging legal opinion sound judgment sound judgement perspicacity sagacity sagaciousness
Etymology
From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Late Latin iūdicāmentum, from Latin iūdicō. Partially displaced doom. By surface analysis, judge + -ment.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
- noun The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
Etymology [OE. jugement, F. jugement, LL. judicamentum, fr. L. judicare. See Judge, v. i.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “judgment”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details