discretion
B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
General noun
The quality of behaving and speaking so as to avoid causing offence or revealing confidences.
The doctor was known for her discretion, and patients trusted her completely.
Medicine noun
The freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation.
The letter left the timing of the follow-up appointment to the GP's discretion.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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