JUDGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does judging mean? 

• JUDGING (noun)
  The noun JUDGING has 1 sense:

1. the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

  Familiarity information: JUDGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

judgement; judging; judgment

Hypernyms ("judging" is a kind of...):

deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "judging"):

prejudgement; prejudgment (a judgment reached before the evidence is available)

Derivation:

judge (form a critical opinion of)

judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

 Context examples 

What has he been judging by?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I let down the window and looked out; Millcote was behind us; judging by the number of its lights, it seemed a place of considerable magnitude, much larger than Lowton.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Judging from observed changes in clouds over recent decades, it appears that the atmosphere would create fewer high clouds in response to surface warming.

(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)

But she was a very good woman, and if her second object was to be sensible and well-judging, her first was to see Anne happy.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"And perhaps, if you're constantly judging your emotions, the negativity can pile up."

(Embracing Darker Moods Makes You Feel Better, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I know he spoke to you yesterday, and (as far as I understand) received as much encouragement to proceed as a well-judging young woman could permit herself to give.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Judging by your chart, that’s a wise way to go.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The mental process of knowing, thinking, learning and judging; the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.

(Cognition, NCI Thesaurus)

Another advantage he possessed was that of correctly judging time and distance.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They dropped their voices, but Amy knew they were speaking of her, hearing one side of the story and judging accordingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)