Discern vs Deliberate - What's the difference?
discern | deliberate |
To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
* {{quote-book
, year=1875
, author=Jules Verne
, title=The Survivors of the Chancellor
, chapter=1
To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
* {{quote-book
, year=1842
, author=Charles Dickens
, title=American Notes for General Circulation
To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.
* {{quote-book
, year=1651
, author=Thomas Hobbes
, title=Leviathan
To perceive differences.
Done on purpose; intentional.
Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining.
Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
* Shakespeare
Not hasty or sudden; slow.
* W. Wirt
To consider carefully.
As verbs the difference between discern and deliberate
is that discern is to detect with the senses, especially with the eyes while deliberate is to consider carefully.As an adjective deliberate is
done on purpose; intentional.discern
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=Meanwhile the brig had altered her tack, and was moving slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest eye could not have discerned her top-sails above the horizon.}}
citation, passage=If they discern' any evidences of wrong-going in any direction that I have indicated, they will acknowledge that I had reason in what I wrote. If they ' discern no such thing, they will consider me altogether mistaken.}}
citation, passage=The severity of judgement, they say, makes men censorious and unapt to pardon the errors and infirmities of other men: and on the other side, celerity of fancy makes the thoughts less steady than is necessary to discern exactly between right and wrong.}}
- He was too young to discern right from wrong.
Derived terms
* discernible * discernment * indiscernibleAnagrams
* *deliberate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Tripping me was deliberate action.
- The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.
- a deliberate''' opinion; a '''deliberate measure or result
- settled visage and deliberate word
- His enunciation was so deliberate .
Antonyms
* (intentional) unwittingVerb
(deliberat)- It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.