judgment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

   they criticized my judgment of the contestants

2. 2
   noun

   an opinion formed by judging something

   They were reluctant to make their judgment known.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of judging.

   The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times.

4. 4
   noun

   The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.

   a man of judgment / a man of good judgment

5. 5
   noun

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

   She in my judgment was as fair as you.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

   In judgments between the Rich and the Poor: it is not to be considered what the poor man needs, but what is his own

7. 7
   noun

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

8. 8
   noun

   the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

Etymology

From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Late Latin iūdicāmentum, from Latin iūdicō. Partially displaced doom. By surface analysis, judge + -ment.