different between judgment vs firmness

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.

Derived terms

Translations

References

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

English

Etymology

firm +? -ness

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?mn?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??mn?s/
• Hyphenation: firm?ness

Noun

firmness (countable and uncountable, plural firmnesses)

1. The state of being firm
   1. security; steadfastness; good grip
   2. strictness; mental strength
      • France, for the first time since the death of Charlemagne, was governed by a prince of great firmness and ability.

   3. physical durability; rigidness (of material)

Translations

References

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