judgement

Noun

• the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
  • they criticized my judgment of the contestants
    

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

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

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

• an opinion formed by judging something
  • he was reluctant to make his judgment known
    
  • she changed her mind
    

• the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
  • opinions are usually written by a single judge
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  judgment , assessment , judicial decision , sound judgment , sound judgement , perspicacity , sagacity , sagaciousness , discernment , judging , mind , opinion , legal opinion