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Dictionary definition for: Discerning
1. (a) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic" "a discerning reader"
2. (s) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor" "a discreet silence"
3. (s) quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. (s) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste" "a discerning eye for color"
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