discercion

Using your knowledge, own understanding, about situations to make decisions.

She used her discercion to decide if the red dress would look better with her blonde hair over the teal dress.

by unotrav April 30, 2025

Protein Dispersion

When a man ejaculates his semen.

My buddy is taking a 10 day cruise to the Islands where he plans to enjoy the sunny beaches, the beautiful ladies, and hopefully some "Protein Dispersion"!

by talk2me-JCH2 October 5, 2016

discretion is the better part of valor

A phrase meaning to not let courage outweigh good judgment; is the potential outcome worth the risk?

Kid (10 years old): I really wanted to punch that boy for what he said dad, but I thought his parents would probably sue us, so I didn’t.
Dad: Wise decision, son. Discretion is the better part of valor. I’m proud of you. What’d the kid say that made you so mad?
Kid: He said mom was a whore.
Dad: What?!... Why didn’t you beat the shit outta that kid!!

by |SaltyJack| January 12, 2019

doorman discretion

That immense amount of power conferred upon one without commensurate knowledge, experience, or understanding, such that, in effect, the village idiot ends up holding the keys to the U.S. nuclear arsenal, or worse, won't let you into your own office building so you can finish working on that one document that will define the rest of your career and is due tomorrow morning.

I apologize for not filing that brief brief with the supreme court on time, but I was the victim of doorman discretion.

by Mongo23 June 1, 2006

No Discretion

Not giving a fuck. The people in the group are some bad ass mo' fuckas.

Slappin' a bitch, not giving a shit, living life on the edge..No Discretion.

by Your moma. November 27, 2010

dispersion

In polyamory, dispersion is any benevolent, non-jealous, relieved, or contented feeling toward the other partners of your own partner, because your partner's time spent with them gives you and your partner time apart, which introverts need to feel comfortable. It was coined to provide a more specific variety of compersion, benevolent and non-jealous feeling toward one's metamour (your own partner's partner). If compersion is being happy to share your partner with somebody else, because it makes them both happy, then dispersion is being happy that your partner is spending time with somebody else, away from you, because it lets you have space and solitude.

Dispersion was coined to be used in this way by redditor /u/TooShortToBeStarbuck, on 17 March 2016, in the /r/polyamory subreddit.

Quoting from the reddit post in question:
"Comperson has been retroactively justified as 'comperage + person + compassion,' or some combination thereof.

Why not dispersion? Yes, it's an actual word, but it both works in a literal sense and in a morphological sense. 'The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.' Dispersing one's emotional, social, and other relationship needs across multiple partners allows any one partner to avoid shouldering too much social burden.

The 'com' in 'compassion' is 'with.' The 'dis' in 'dispassion' is 'apart.' The compersion you feel, as a result of being able to get away from each other, is dispersion."

Brad was feeling socially overstimulated when Jennifer wanted to spend every evening at home, but now Jennifer is also dating Angelina. Brad enjoys great dispersion toward Angelina, catching up on his favourite shows on nights the two women go out together.

by TooShortToBeStarbuck July 19, 2016

discretionary sanction

A restriction placed on a Wikipedia editor who is found not to subscribe to leftist thought and ideology

Provided the awareness criteria are met, discretionary sanctions may be used against editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia (i.e., preventing people from thinking by themselves)

by thinking_deeply May 23, 2022