judgment

Plural: judgments

Noun

• An authoritative opinion or decision; the ability to make sensible decisions.
• an opinion formed by judging something
  • "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"
• the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
  • "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
• (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
• the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
• the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
• the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
• The act of judging.
• The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
• The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
• 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 final award; the last sentence.

Examples

• a man of judgment / a man of good judgment
• a politician without judgment
• Poor judgment led him to play ’QI’ without a double letter score.

Synonyms

assessment, discernment, judgement, judging, judicial decision, legal opinion, mind, opinion, perspicacity, sagaciousness, sagacity, sound judgement, sound judgment, thinking