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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
judgement
noun
1: the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge" [syn: {opinion}, {legal opinion}, {judgment}]
2: an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind" [syn: {judgment}, {mind}]
3: the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions [syn: {judgment}, {judging}]
4: ability to make good judgments [syn: {sagacity}, {sagaciousness}, {judgment}, {discernment}]
5: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions [syn: {judgment}, {sound judgment}, {sound judgement}, {perspicacity}]
6: (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it [syn: {judgment}, {judicial decision}]
7: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants" [syn: {judgment}, {assessment}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "judgement": acumen, adjudication, appraisal, assessment, belief, censure, common sense, conclusion, condemnation, criticism, decision, decree, determination, disapproval, discernment, discretion, discrimination, estimation, evaluation, finding, good sense, intelligence, judgment, judiciousness, level-headedness, mind, opinion, order, outcome, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuousness, prudence, reproof, result, ruling, sagacity, sentiment, shrewdness, understanding, upshot, valuation, verdict, view, way of thinking, wisdom, wit
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