Words and phrases that have a meaning related to discretion: (151 results)
Often used in the same context:
prerogative, leeway, latitude, authority, jurisdiction, reasonableness, deference, unreasonableness, remittitur, supersedeas, determinations, vacatur, judgment, privilege, recourse, presumption, affirmance, arbitrariness, appropriateness, egregiousness, excessiveness, carte blanche, lenity, propriety, wiggle room, blameworthiness, statute, adjudication, prudence, superintendence, designee, caselaw, overruling, ipse dixit, preference, culpability, ultra vires, res ipsa loquitur, nonjudicial foreclosure, rescission, extenuating circumstances, simpliciter, entitlement, mortgagor, flexibility, sentencer, preclusion, justification, wardship, precedential, pledgee, reprehensibility, impaneling, surrebuttal, pursuant, subjectivity, oversight, irrevocability, answerability, scope, grievant, untimeliness, authorization, substantiality, testatrix, prejudgment, reargument, trier, flagrancy, nonsuit, transferor, bully pulpit, preponderance, purview, consent, caution, asportation, corpus delicti, totality, exclusionary rule, includable, generis, ad litem, frivolousness, clawback, lenience, liberality, terminable, demurrer, powers, latent defect, hearsay evidence, obligee, appointer, arrogation, caprice, judicatory, wrongness, informality, administrative hearing, pendente lite, ex post facto, autonomy, protection, credence, power, selfcontrol, comprehensiveness, credibility, impartiality, responsibility, secrecy, skill, acumen, foresight
More specific:
circumspection, confidentiality, free will, self-determination
Appears in the definition of:
amerce, arbitrary, confidentiality, direct loan, discreetly, discretional, discretionary, discretionary trust, indiscreet, indiscreetly, injudicious, mandamus, prudence, rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty, writ of mandamus
More general:
appreciation, discernment, judgement, liberty, perceptiveness, potency, powerfulness, sagaciousness, sagacity, taste, wisdom, wiseness
Synonyms:
Also try:delicacy, discreetness
— Adjectives for discretion: own, judicial, wide, administrative, considerable, more, sound, great, broad, much, sole, more...
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