Definition of: judgment

(juj′mənt) noun
1. The act or faculty of affirming or denying a conclusion, whether as based upon a direct comparison of objects or ideas, or derived by a process of reasoning.
2. The result of judging; the decision or conclusion reached, as after consideration or deliberation.
3. Law The sentence or final order of a court in a civil or criminal proceeding; the sentence of the law; the final determination or adjudication of the rights of the parties to an action; decision; award; also, the obligation or debt created by the decision or verdict of a court, or the official certificate or record of such decision, which constitutes a lien on leviable property.
4. A disaster or affliction regarded as inflicted by God as a punishment for sin.
5. Theol. The final award or sentence of the human race; also, the time of this: also Judgment or Last Judgment.
6. Psychol. The mental act or attitude of decision with which the process of observation, comparison, or ratiocination is terminated; also, loosely, the rational faculty; thought.
7. Logic That form of thought in which two terms are compared and their fitness to be joined under a given relation is affirmed or denied; also, the result of judging, the verbal expression of which is called an assertion or proposition.
8. Obs. Uprightness; rectitude. Also Brit. judge′ment. See synonyms under IDEA, PRUDENCE, THOUGHT¹, UNDERSTANDING, WISDOM.
—general judg·ment Theol. The final judgment of all men after the dissolution of the world.
—particular judgment Theol. The judgment of the soul immediately after death.