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discretion

the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment"

knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"

freedom to act or judge on one's own

Synonyms:

• airtight secrecy,
• aloofness,
• alternate choice,
• alternative,
• animus,
• anticipation,
• appetence,
• appetency,
• appetite,
• backwardness,
• bashfulness,
• blankness,
• calculation,
• canniness,
• care,
• careful consideration,
• carefulness,
• caution,
• cautiousness,
• chilliness,
• choice,
• circumspection,
• circumspectness,
• close secrecy,
• closeness,
• coldness,
• command,
• common sense,
• conation,
• conatus,
• concealment,
• consideration,
• constraint,
• contemplation,
• cool judgment,
• coolness,
• crypticness,
• decision,
• deliberate stages,
• deliberateness,
• deliberation,
• desire,
• detachment,
• determination,
• diplomacy,
• discernment,
• discreetness,
• discrimination,
• disposition,
• distance,
• envisagement,
• envisionment,
• evasion,
• evasiveness,
• expressionlessness,
• fancy,
• farseeingness,
• farsightedness,
• forecast,
• foreglance,
• foregleam,
• foreglimpse,
• forehandedness,
• foreseeing,
• foresight,
• foresightedness,
• forethought,
• free choice,
• free decision,
• free will,
• frigidity,
• frostiness,
• full consent,
• gingerliness,
• good judgment,
• good sense,
• guardedness,
• gumption,
• hedge,
• hedging,
• heed,
• heedfulness,
• hesitation,
• hiddenness,
• hugger-mugger,
• hugger-muggery,
• iciness,
• impassiveness,
• impassivity,
• impersonality,
• inaccessibility,
• inclination,
• intention,
• introversion,
• judgement,
• judgment,
• judiciousness,
• liking,
• longsightedness,
• looking ahead,
• lust,
• mind,
• mindfulness,
• moderation,
• modesty,
• noncontingent free will,
• objective,
• option,
• optionality,
• passion,
• pawkiness,
• pleasure,
• policy,
• polity,
• possible choice,
• precaution,
• prediction,
• preference,
• preparation,
• prepublication,
• preview,
• prevision,
• prior consultation,
• prospect,
• prospection,
• providence,
• provision,
• prudence,
• prudentialism,
• prudentialness,
• readiness,
• reflection,
• reflectiveness,
• regardfulness,
• remoteness,
• repression,
• reserve,
• reservedness,
• resolution,
• restraint,
• reticence,
• reticency,
• retirement,
• safeness,
• safety first,
• sagacity,
• say,
• say-so,
• secrecy,
• secretiveness,
• secretness,
• sense,
• sexual desire,
• slowness to act,
• solicitude,
• sound judgment,
• soundness of judgment,
• standoffishness,
• subduedness,
• subterfuge,
• suppression,
• tact,
• tentativeness,
• the dark,
• thoroughness,
• thoughtfulness,
• unaffability,
• unapproachability,
• uncommunicativeness,
• uncongeniality,
• undemonstrativeness,
• unexpansiveness,
• unprecipitateness,
• velleity,
• volition,
• weighing,
• will,
• will and pleasure,
• will power,
• wisdom,
• wish,
• withdrawal,
• withdrawnness