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Understanding   /ˌəndərstˈændɪŋ/   Listen
Understanding

noun
1.
The cognitive condition of someone who understands.  Synonyms: apprehension, discernment, savvy.
2.
The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises.  Synonym: agreement.  "There was an understanding between management and the workers"
3.
An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion.  Synonym: sympathy.  "I knew I could count on his understanding"
4.
The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination.  Synonyms: intellect, reason.
adjective
1.
Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy.


Understand

verb
(past & past part. understood, archaic understanded; pres. part. understanding)
1.
Know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.  "I understand what she means"
2.
Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.  Synonyms: realise, realize, see.  "I just can't see your point" , "Does she realize how important this decision is?" , "I don't understand the idea"
3.
Make sense of a language.  Synonyms: interpret, read, translate.  "Can you read Greek?"
4.
Believe to be the case.  Synonym: infer.
5.
Be understanding of.  Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize.



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"Understanding" Quotes from Famous Books



... anything that looked to him like what he called "funny business", under which heading he catalogued tyranny, treachery, interference with the liberty of the subject by the subject, "blanky" lies, or swindles—all things, in short, that seemed to his slow understanding dishonest, mean or paltry; most especially, and above all, treachery to a mate. THAT he could never forget. Andy was uncomfortably "straight". His mind worked slowly and his decisions were, as a rule, right and just; and when he once came to a conclusion ...
— On the Track • Henry Lawson
... he even commenced to grasp the complexities of Caspakian evolution; but as the truth slowly filtered into his understanding—as gradually it became possible for him to visualize the scheme, it appeared simpler. In fact, it seemed even less difficult of comprehension than that with ...
— Out of Time's Abyss • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... on a personal appeal to the Commander in Chief.[14-130] The Army would drop the racial quota, he told Truman on 1 March, with (p. 374) one proviso: "If, as a result of a fair trial of this new system, there ensues a disproportionate balance of racial strengths in the Army, it is my understanding that I have your authority to return to a system which will, in effect, control enlistments by race."[14-131] ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.
... of understanding and pity. A pained conviction that Sophie was no better made her shrink from putting the obvious question; but Sophie did not wait ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... may be taken as the representative of the English Philosophy of the time, and his influence on the speculative opinions of his day was second only to that of Hobbes. His "Essay on the Understanding" contains the germ of utter skepticism and was the ground on which Berkeley denied the existence of the material world, and Hume involved all human knowledge ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta


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