different between clearness vs judgment

English

Etymology

From clear +? -ness

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)n?s

Noun

clearness (usually uncountable, plural clearnesses)

1. (obsolete) Brightness, brilliancy. [14^th-17^thc.]
2. Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc. [from 16^thc.]
   • 1966, "The Lowest Depths", Time, 6 September:

     The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.

3. The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc. [from 17^thc.]

   The clearness of the water meant I could still see the key lying on the river-bed.

4. The state of being free from obstruction or interference. [from 17^thc.]

   The clearness of the path made for an easy hike.

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Anagrams

• cleansers

English

Alternative forms

• judgement (Commonwealth)
• iugement, iudgement, iudgment, iudgemente, iudgmente (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Late Latin i?dic?mentum, from Latin i?dic?. Displaced native doom.

Morphologically judge +? -ment

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?j'm?nt, IPA^(key): /?d??d?.m?nt/

Noun

judgment (countable and uncountable, plural judgments)

1. The act of judging.
2. The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely

   a man of judgment

   a politician without judgment
3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
   • 1589–93 William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, IV:iv

     She in my judgment was as fair as you.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 14:

     Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;

     And yet methinks I have astronomy ...

4. (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     In judgments between the Rich and the Poor: it is not to be considered what the poor man needs, but what is his own

   • Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.

5. (theology) The final award; the last sentence.

Usage notes

See Judgment: Spelling for discussion of spelling usage of judgment versus judgement. Briefly, the form without the -e is preferred in American English, and in law globally, while the form with the -e is preferred in non-legal use in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South African English.

Like abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment, judgment is sometimes written with ‘British’ spellings in American English, as judgement (respectively, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement).

The British spelling preserves the rule that G can only be soft while preceding an E, I, or Y.

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References

• judgment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.