Read the dictionary definition of discerning. All definitions for this word.
1. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
1. a discerning critic
2. a discerning reader
2. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
1. discerning taste
2. a discerning eye for color
3. quick to understand
1. a kind and apprehensive friend
4. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
1. a discerning editor
2. a discreet silence