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Definition of Judgment

1. Noun. An opinion formed by judging something. "She changed her mind"

2. Noun. The act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event. "They criticized my judgment of the contestants"

3. Noun. (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it.

4. Noun. The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions.

5. Noun. The legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision. "Opinions are usually written by a single judge"

6. Noun. The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions.

7. Noun. The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations.

Definition of Judgment

1. n. The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.

Definition of Judgment

1. Noun. The act of judging. ¹

2. Noun. 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. ¹

3. Noun. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision. ¹

4. Noun. (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. ¹

5. Noun. (theology) The final award; the last sentence. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Judgment

1. an authoritative opinion [n -S]

Medical Definition of Judgment

1. 1. The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence. "I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed." (Chaucer) 2. The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment. "He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment." (Ps. Lxxii. 2) "Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look." (Shak) 3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision. "She in my judgment was as fair as you." (Shak) "Who first his judgment asked, and then a place." (Pope) 4. 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; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all. "In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own." (Jer. Taylor) "Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment." (Shak) 5. That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical. That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2. "A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another." (Sir W. Hamilton) "The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment." (Stewart) 6. A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. "Judgments are prepared for scorners." . "This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble." 7. The final award; the last sentence. Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining combinations; as, judgment hour; judgment throne. Judgment day, a proceeding by a judgment creditor against a judgment debtor upon an unsatisfied judgment. Arrest of judgment. See Arrest, Judgment of God, a term formerly applied to extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as by arms and single combat, by ordeal, etc.; it being imagined that God would work miracles to vindicate innocence. See Ordeal. Synonym: Discernment, decision, determination, award, estimate, criticism, taste, discrimination, penetration, sagacity, intelligence, understanding. See Taste. Origin: OE. Jugement, F. Jugement, LL. Judicamentum, fr. L. Judicare. See Judge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Judgment

judgemental judgementalism judgementally judgements judger judgers judgeship judgeships judgest judgeth

judging judgingly judgmatic judgmatical judgmatically judgment (current term) judgment by default judgment call judgment calls judgment day

judgment in personam judgment in rem judgment lien judgment of Solomon judgment of conviction judgment of dismissal judgment on the merits judgment on the pleadings judgment proof judgmental

Literary usage of Judgment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"We apply all these terms—judgment, intelligence, prudence, and reason—to the same persons, and talk of people as having, at a certain age, already acquired ..."

2. How We Think by John Dewey (1910)
"CHAPTER EIGHT judgment: THE INTERPRETATION OF FACTS § I. The Three Factors of Judging A MAN of good judgment in a given set of affairs is a Good man in so ..."

3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Accordingly, the analytic of principles will be merely a canon for the faculty of judgment, for the instruction of this faculty in its application to ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1895)
"If the presentation of judgments is incomplete, our own judgment function is inhibited: to remove the inhibition, we formulate our astonishment, ..."

5. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"The faculty which God has given man to supply the judgment* want of clear and certain ... The mind sometimes exercises this judgment out of necessity, ..."

6. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1921)
"Claims in nature of tort not reduced to judgment. À claim in tort or in the nature of tort, which has not been reduced to judgment and is not liquidated is ..."

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