Meaning of विवेक in English

Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.
The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
Tenderness of feeling; pity.
Disjunction; separation.
The quality of being discreet; wise conduct and management; cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control; prudence; circumspection; wariness.
Discrimination.
Freedom to act according to one's own judgment; unrestrained exercise of choice or will.
The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.
The state of being sane; sanity.
The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.
Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.
The act of discerning.
The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.
The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.
The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.
Want of knowledge; ignorance.
To make to understand; to instruct.