discernment vs sense

discernment

noun
  • Perceptiveness. 

  • 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. 

  • Discretion in judging objectively. 

  • The ability to perceive differences that exist. 

  • The ability to distinguish; judgement. 

sense

noun
  • Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. 

  • One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity. 

  • A natural appreciation or ability. 

  • The way that a referent is presented. 

  • The meaning, reason, or value of something. 

  • A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary. 

  • Sound practical or moral judgment. 

  • Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. 

  • referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product. 

  • One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise. 

  • Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings. 

verb
  • To instinctively be aware. 

  • To comprehend. 

  • To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel. 

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