Judgment
['dʒʌdʒmənt]
Definition
(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.) 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'.
Typist: Loretta--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Discernment, understanding, intelligence, discrimination, taste, sagacity, penetration, wisdom, brains, prudence, ballast, depth, sense, mother-wit, quick parts, common sense, good sense, long head.[2]. Determination, decision, conclusion, opinion, notion, estimate.[3]. (Law.) Sentence, award, decree.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Decision, determination, adjudication, sagacity, penetration, judiciousness,sense, intellect, belief, estimation, opinion, verdict, sentence, discernment,discrimination, intelligence, prudence, award, condemnation
ANT:Argument, consideration, inquiry, speculation, proposition, investigation,pleading, insagacity, injudiciousness, evidence, pronunciation
Typist: Rebecca
Examples
- Sometimes, Eustacia, I think it is a judgment upon you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mr. Batchelor's judgment and good sense were always in evidence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The aspect of piteous distress on his face, almost as imploring a merciful and kind judgment from his child, gave her a sudden sickening. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Both should be forbidden, in my judgment; I would take the annual produce and no more. Plato. The Republic.
- Those were very simple facts, and my judgment went no farther. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I expect a judgment shortly and shall then place my establishment on a superior footing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His judgment, activity, and consummate bravery, justified their choice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I see your judgment is not with me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Samuel Edison, versatile, buoyant of temper, and ever optimistic, would thus appear to have pitched his tent with shrewd judgment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I think I've hearn tell o' the Lord, and the judgment and torment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I will not here make reflections on any person's judgment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One good deed or one bad one is no measure of a man's character: the Last Judgment let us hope will be no series of decisions as simple as that. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Robert Jordan trusted the man, Anselmo, so far, in everything except judgment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our actions are more voluntary than our judgments; but we have not more liberty in the one than in the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To be depriving themselves of the advantage of other eyes and other judgments, might be an evil even beyond the loss of present pleasure. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is altogether too common to separate perceptions and even ideas from judgments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Their minds construct a utopia--one in which all judgments are based on logical inference from syllogisms built on the law of mathematical probabilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The case is the same as in our judgments concerning all kinds of beauty, and tastes, and sensations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They are fine fellows--very fine fellows; with judgments matured by observation and reflection; and tastes refined by reading and study. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The case is here the same as in our judgments concerning external bodies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And the cruelty of Lily's judgments smote upon her memory. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It was pitiable that he, who knew the mixed motives on which social judgments depend, should still feel himself so swayed by them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Grief and calamity they despise; they seem to regard them as the judgments of God on the lowly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then come impeachments and judgments and trials of one another. Plato. The Republic.
- I ventured to say, My lady, we must all remember not to be hasty in our judgments on our inferiors--especially when they come from foreign parts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Such judgments are not only common, but in many cases certain and infallible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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