| Judgment 1. (n.) 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. (n.) 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. (n.) The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision. 4. (n.) 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. (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. 6. (v. i.) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2. 7. (n.) A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. 8. (n.) The final award; the last sentence. Thesaurus Entries acquittal, acumen, anathematizing, appraisal, appraisement, assessment, assumption, astuteness, attitude, belief, castigation, censure, chastening, chastisement, circumspection, circumspectness, climate of opinion, common belief, common sense, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, condemnation, condign punishment, consensus gentium, consideration, conviction, cool judgment, correction, critical discernment, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, decision, deduction, denouncement, denunciation, deserts, determination, discernment, disciplinary measures, discipline, discreetness, discretion, discrimination, doom, estimate, estimation, ethos, evaluation, excommunication, eye, feeling, ferule, flair, general belief, good judgment, good sense, guilty verdict, gumption, horse sense, idea, illation, impression, infliction, insight, judicatory, judicature, judicial process, judicial punishment, judiciary, judiciousness, justice, landmark decision, lights, mind, mystique, nemesis, new, notion, observation, opinion, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penetration, penology, perception, perceptiveness, personal judgment, perspicacity, persuasion, point of view, policy, polity, popular belief, position, posture, presumption, prevailing belief, proscription, providence, prudence, prudentialism, public belief, public opinion, punishment, punition, rap, ratiocination, reaction, reflection, reflectiveness, retribution, retributive justice, ruling, sagacity, scourge, sentence, sentiment, sequitur, shrewdness, sight, sound judgment, soundness of judgment, stance, stock, the courts, theory, thinking, thought, thoughtfulness, verdict, verdict of guilty, view, way of thinking, weighing, well-deserved punishment, what-for, wisdom |