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Definition of 'judgment'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) judgment
an act or instance of judging.

2.  judgment
the ability to judge, make a decision, or form an opinion objectively or wisely; good sense; discernment.

3.  judgment
the demonstration or exercise of such capacity.

4.  judgment
the forming of an opinion, estimate, notion, or conclusion, as from circumstances presented to the mind.

5.  judgment
the opinion formed.

6.  judgment
a judicial decision given by a judge or court.

7.  judgment
the obligation, esp. a debt, arising from a judicial decision.

8.  judgment
the certificate embodying such a decision.

9.  judgment
a misfortune regarded as inflicted by divine sentence, as for sin.

10.  judgment
(usu. cap.)

Etymology: (1250–1300; < OF jugement)

Definition of 'judgment'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) judgment, judgement, mind
an opinion formed by judging something
"he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"

2. (noun) judgment, judgement, assessment
the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
"they criticized my judgment of the contestants"

3. (noun) judgment, judgement, judicial decision
(law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it

4. (noun) judgment, judgement, judging
the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

5. (noun) opinion, legal opinion, judgment, judgement
the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
"opinions are usually written by a single judge"

6. (noun) judgment, judgement, sound judgment, sound judgement, perspicacity
the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

7. (noun) sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

Definition of 'judgment'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) judgment
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

2. (verb) judgment
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

3. (verb) judgment
the conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision

4. (verb) judgment
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

5. (verb) judgment
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

6. (verb) judgment
that power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2

7. (verb) judgment
a calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment

8. (verb) judgment
the final award; the last sentence

Definition of 'judgment'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. judgment
The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person to make judgments; the process of bringing to light and asserting the implicit meaning of a concept; a critical evaluation of a person or situation.

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