What's the difference between judgment and misjudgment?

Judgment


Definition:

  • (v. i.) The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
  • (v. i.) The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
  • (v. i.) The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
  • (v. i.) 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; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.
  • (v. i.) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
  • (v. i.) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
  • (v. i.) A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.
  • (v. i.) The final award; the last sentence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
  • (2) "Attempts to quantify existential risk inevitably involve a large helping of subjective judgment.
  • (3) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
  • (4) Visual judgments of tremor amplitude made by neurologists during clinical examinations equaled the sensitivity of computerized tremor amplitude measurements.
  • (5) An experimental investigation of acupuncture's analgesic potency, separated from suggestion effects, is described, in which judgments of shock-elicited pain of the forearm were recorded along two separate scales: intensity and aversiveness.
  • (6) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
  • (7) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
  • (8) These results were compared with perceptual judgments of "passability" under static and moving viewing conditions.
  • (9) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
  • (10) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
  • (11) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
  • (12) These errors involved supervision, limited experience, and errors in judgment.
  • (13) Nineteen percent of the medication administration visits could be eliminated by this method according to the independent judgments of two physicians.
  • (14) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
  • (15) "This age group feeds Radio 4's core audience and it would in my judgment be negligent not to [look at this]," Liddiment added.
  • (16) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
  • (17) Two experiments were designed to examine the effects of multiple timing tasks on prospective time judgment performance.
  • (18) Although statistics cannot replace clinical judgment, this index can be a valuable objective tool in the evaluation of the patient with a severely traumatized extremity.
  • (19) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
  • (20) The durect judgment of the function of the floor of the pelvis is only possible by the electromyogram.

Misjudgment


Definition:

  • (n.) A wrong or unjust judgment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
  • (2) Carefull angiographic investigation can avoid misjudging the symptoms (stridor, dysphagia) and can contribute to an exact diagnosis thus preventing unnecessary operation.
  • (3) There was deep irritation in the cabinet that the prime minister had misjudged the mood of his parliamentary party and had single-handedly revived the fortunes of Miliband after a recent bad patch.
  • (4) Because of various manifestations (rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis, arthralgie, "red eye", neuritis, carditis) and different symptomatics the disease is misjudged over month and years.
  • (5) David Luiz was at fault, misjudging the pace of Ramires's back-pass and, having turned his back on the ball, was left to look on in horror as Mutch ran through on the blindside and struck the ball past Petr Cech, making his 300th league appearance for Chelsea.
  • (6) It hurts when Greenpeace loses the widows' mite , but it will be nowhere near as painful as when countries such as Bangladesh or the Maldives are told there is no money in the Green Climate Fund , the IMF or the World Bank to build defences against rising sea levels or storm surges because anonymous rogue traders and trusted financiers in New York or London have misjudged the market and lost billions.
  • (7) ‘Patriotism’ is a difficult concept to pin, and one man’s patriotism can easily be misjudged as folly or even treachery if we start judging based on a narrow understanding of the term.” Walid, a Muslim veteran of the navy, added that “even though we invaded Iraq based upon bogus information, that doesn’t diminish the sacrifice of Captain Khan and other American service members who lost their lives”.
  • (8) Had he been convicted at that time then I’m surprised the Israeli government allowed him to travel.” Asked if he made “misjudgments”, Corbyn said: “You’re putting a lot of words into my mouth about misjudgments.
  • (9) Then, after some pigeon hilarity - sorry, cricket, for misjudging you - Sangakkara is beaten by some extra bounce, the ball kissing the face of his bat without telling him and flying just wide of point.
  • (10) Hofer himself described Farage’s comments as a “crass misjudgment”, adding that “it doesn’t fill me with joy when someone meddles from outside”.
  • (11) They conceded an absurd early goal when their Scottish international keeper, George Farm, pitifully misjudged a shot by Nat Lofthouse after a mere 75 seconds.
  • (12) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
  • (13) However Tomkins misjudged the bounce – Allardyce insisted there was a nudge – and Rooney let fly with an astonishing shot that hung in the air for an age, so high it was almost in the clouds.
  • (14) It was a misjudgment in the heat of the moment.” The forlorn-looking Formula One world champion muttered: “I can’t really express the way I’m feeling at the moment so I won’t attempt to.
  • (15) The lack of checking urine for ketones, the wrong feeling of safety after long-term successful pump treatment, and a concomitant psychological stress situation favoured the misjudgement of the clinical symptoms of ketosis and the delay of hospital admission.
  • (16) Many other examples could be cited of misjudged priorities and wasteful expenditure.
  • (17) The misjudgment may have proved embarrassing politically, but it was a money-spinner for UK arms manufacturers.
  • (18) 4.33am BST 64 mins: Altidore throws his head back in frustration as Bradley nudges a ball to him on the edge of the box, and the Sunderland striker spins, but misjudges the bounce of the ball so that his kick shanks high over the bar.
  • (19) It was just a really outdated, misjudged and heavily biased presentation."
  • (20) Will Dave emulate his old patron, Michael Howard, and sack Boris for an egregious misjudgment ?

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