Definition of Discerning

Discerning

of Discern

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

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Discerning Quotations

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster Wallace

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.
Don Bluth

I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.
Ethan Hawke

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Edsger Dijkstra

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Joel Barlow

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
Joseph Bologna

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell Page

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
Manolo Blahnik

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Discerning Translations

discerning in German is unterscheidend, erkennend
discerning in Norwegian is forstandig, skarpsindig

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