Opinion vs Judgment - What's the difference?
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A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
* 1606 , , I. vii. 32:
* South
(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
* 1597 , , V. iv. 47:
* Milton
(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
* 1590 , , V. i. 5:
The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
(archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
* 1658', But if (as some '''opinion ) King ''Ahasuerus'' were ''Artaxerxes Mnemon'' [...], our magnified ''Cyrus'' was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)
The act of judging.
The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
* Psalms 72:2 ().
* Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream , I-i
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
* Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona , IV-iv
(legal) 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.
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* Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice , IV-i
(theology) The final award; the last sentence.
Judgment is a synonym of opinion.
As nouns the difference between opinion and judgment
is that opinion is a belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue while judgment is the act of judging.As a verb opinion
is to have or express as an opinion.opinion
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Noun
(en noun)- I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
- In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
- Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .
- Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -
- I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
- Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
- Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .
- This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.
- Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.
Derived terms
* advisory opinion * be of the opinion * in my humble opinion/IMHO * in my opinion * in one's opinion * opinion poll * public opinion * scientific opinion * second opinionSee also
* factVerb
(en verb)Statistics
* ----judgment
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Alternative forms
* judgement (British) * iugement, iudgement, iudgment, iudgemente, iudgmente (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment .
- Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
- She in my judgment was as fair as you.
- In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.
- Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment .