Judgment is the mental ability to understand something, form an opinion and reach a decision. You have great judgment of character, which is why your friends ask you to meet their significant others when things get serious.
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;
Noun
the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
Noun
(law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
Noun
the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
Noun
ability to make good judgments
Noun
the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
Noun
an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"
Noun
the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"
v. i.
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.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a
decision.
v. i.
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; the mandate or sentence of God as
the judge of all.
v. i.
That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas
which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of
ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may
be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of
concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two
judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as
analytic, synthetic, and identical.
v. i.
That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent
upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
v. i.
A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of
recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.
v. i.
The final award; the last sentence.
Judgment
I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed.2.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.
Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.3.
She in my judgment was as fair as you.
Who first his judgment asked, and then a place.4.
In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.
Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.5.
A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.
The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment.6.
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;
Usage Examples
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Other Usage ExamplesAny critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
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