discern

About 3.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
2. verb To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
3. verb To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.

   He was too young to discern right from wrong.

4. verb To perceive differences.

Similar words

distinguish tell apart recognize pick out make out perceive discriminate differentiate understand know

Often followed by

the a in what that and any between whether

Word family

discerned discerner discerners discerning discerns