disgression or discretion

Discretion means the freedom to make wise decisions and choices. It entails being discreet completely.

"Viewers discretion is advised."

Disgression is a non existent word that often occurs as mistakes and errors for the word, discretion. The confusion basically exists in the enunciation of the word, how it is pronounced could affect someone trying to write it down.

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• buttox vs buttocks
• writting vs writing
• absorbtion vs absorption
• gaurd vs guard
• ninty vs ninety
• dateline vs deadline
• practicle vs practical
• heal vs heel
• appauled vs appalled
• woman vs women

Definitions

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• n  freedom to act or judge on one's own
• n  knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
  the servants showed great tact and discretion
• n  refined taste; tact
• n  the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
• n  the trait of judging wisely and objectively

News & Articles

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• Soldier's wife gets reprieve from looming deportation order
  A Stockton woman who was about to be deported to the Philippines despite being married to a U.S. Army soldier and the mother of a 9-month-old baby was given a reprieve Wednesday by federal immigration officials. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced this afternoon that they were exercising prosecutorial discretion in the case of Karla Gaerlan, 28, canceling a formerly ...
  June 13, 2013 - KTVU
• Discretion Advised: Consumer Discretionary Soars
  Is it time for Consumer Discretionary investors to exercise some discretion?
  June 11, 2013 - CNBC
• State argues Goodman defense ‘fanciful’; polo mogul should remain on house arrest, $4M bond
  Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath properly used his judicial discretion by keeping Wellington polo mogul John Goodman on a $4 million bond and house arrest after throwing out his DUI manslaughter conviction, state prosecutors say.
  June 11, 2013 - The Palm Beach Post