discernment vs recognition

discernment

noun
  • The ability to distinguish; judgement. 

  • The condition of understanding. 

  • The act of distinguishing between things. 

  • The ability to distinguish between things. 

  • Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation. 

  • The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity. 

  • Perceptiveness. 

  • Discretion in judging objectively. 

  • The ability to perceive differences that exist. 

recognition

noun
  • The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity). 

  • Acceptance as valid or true. 

  • Honour, favourable note, or attention. 

  • A return of the feu to the superior. 

  • Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country. 

  • The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others. 

How often have the words discernment and recognition occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )