discerning

adjective

1. 1

   having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

   a discerning critic

   a discerning reader

2. 2

   able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

   discerning taste

   a discerning eye for color

3. 3

   quick to understand

   a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. 4

   unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

   a discerning editor

   a discreet silence