discernment

n. understanding, insight, perception

Discernment is a term used in Christian tradition to describe the process of discerning God's will for one's life. In large part, it describes the interior search for an answer to the question of one's vocation, namely, determining whether or not God is calling one to the married life, single life, religious life; ordained ministry or priesthood (Roman Catholic or Episcopal/Anglican) or any other ministerial calling by virtue of Baptism. The concept is not limited to ordination or vowed life.
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Noun
1. the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
(synonym) understanding, apprehension, savvy
(hypernym) knowing
(hyponym) comprehension
2. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
(synonym) taste, appreciation, perceptiveness
(hypernym) discrimination, secernment
(hyponym) virtu, vertu, connoisseurship
(attribute) tasteful, in good taste(p)
3. perception of that which is obscure
(synonym) perceptiveness
(hypernym) perception
(derivation) recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
4. ability to make good judgments
(synonym) sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement
(hypernym) wisdom, sapience
(hyponym) eye
5. the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment"
(synonym) discretion
(hypernym) wisdom, wiseness
(hyponym) circumspection, caution

(n.)
The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.
  

(n.)
The act of discerning.
  

Synonyms and related words:
acuity, acumen, acuteness, apperception, astuteness, clear sight, cogency, color vision, cone vision, critical discernment, day vision, daylight vision, discrimination, eye, eye-mindedness, eyesight, farseeingness, farsight, farsightedness, field of view, field of vision, flair, foresight, foresightedness, horizon, incisiveness, insight, intuition, judgment, keen sight, keenness, ken, longheadedness, longsightedness, night vision, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, peripheral field, peripheral vision, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, photopia, power of sight, providence, purview, quick sight, range, reason, rod vision, sagaciousness, sagacity, scope, scotopia, seeing, sense of sight, sensibility, shrewdness, sight, sightedness, sweep, trenchancy, twilight vision, unobstructed vision, vision, visual acuity, visual field, visual sense, wit,