discern.
To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
Meaning & usage
To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.
He was too young to discern right from wrong.
To perceive differences.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English discernen, from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, discern”), from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to distinguish”); see certain.
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