discern

Meaning

1. To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
2. To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
3. To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.
4. To perceive differences.

Synonyms

distinguish

perceive

discriminate

notice

detect

observe

descry

recognize

spot

discover

understand

find

🔍

see

👀

make out

differentiate

recognise

tell apart

espy

behold

determine

get wind of

scent out

realize

comprehend

sense

pick out

guess

hit

identify

infer

interpret

know

listen

make

mark

meditate

mind

nab

note

penetrate

read

📖

realise

register

remark

run across

run up against

scald

score

see through

seize

sight

snatch

spy

strike

suppose

surmise

tell

think

🤔

think out

see in

trace

trap

🪤

unravel

know someone

agnize

realize suddenly

recognize identify

sniff out

take notice

attain enlightenment

be shrewd

be perceptive

have an intuition

distinquish

apprehend

decern

argue

ascertain

attain

bear in mind

captivate

capture

catch

clutch

conclude

confiscate

conjecture

decipher

devise

encounter

estimate

examine

falseness

feel

figure

figure out

find out

grab

grapple

grasp

grip

Translations

erkennen

discerner

waarnemen

unterscheiden

discernir

onderscheiden

distinguir

wahrnehmen

percevoir

bemerken

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈsɜːn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: discernen

In summary

From Middle English discernen, from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, discern”), from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”); see certain.