Understanding

Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understand
  • (a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
  • (n.) The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
  • (n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
  • (n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
  • (n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.

Compare understanding with other words:

perspective vs. understanding

cognition vs. understanding

understanding vs. welcoming

faith vs. understanding

comprehending vs. understanding

recognition vs. understanding

explanation vs. understanding

enlightenment vs. understanding

apprehensive vs. understanding

patience vs. understanding

null vs. understanding

awareness vs. understanding

argumentation vs. understanding

love vs. understanding

intellect vs. understanding

ingenuity vs. understanding

foresight vs. understanding

understanding vs. unwit

misregard vs. understanding

conception vs. understanding

resonance vs. understanding

responsive vs. understanding

considerate vs. understanding

thoughtful vs. understanding

perception vs. understanding

mobile vs. understanding

consciousness vs. understanding

light vs. understanding

preception vs. understanding

empathy vs. understanding

fair vs. understanding

understanding vs. understandingly

blockish vs. understanding

headless vs. understanding

incomprehension vs. understanding

inwit vs. understanding

meaning vs. understanding

madly vs. understanding

elude vs. understanding

innocence vs. understanding

literacy vs. understanding

penetrating vs. understanding

discernment vs. understanding

understanding vs. uptake

compassion vs. understanding

intellection vs. understanding

reconciliation vs. understanding

contract vs. understanding

outlook vs. understanding

informal vs. understanding

judgement vs. understanding

infer vs. understanding

intelligence vs. understanding

subjective vs. understanding

knowledge vs. understanding

assimilation vs. understanding

emotional vs. understanding

purblind vs. understanding

blindfold vs. understanding

understanding vs. wisdom

understandable vs. understanding

understanding vs. witless

content vs. understanding

insight vs. understanding

intellectual vs. understanding

comprehend vs. understanding

comprehension vs. understanding

perspicacity vs. understanding

transcendentalism vs. understanding

apprehension vs. understanding

acuteness vs. understanding

identification vs. understanding

phenomenon vs. understanding

grasp vs. understanding

manifest vs. understanding

aha vs. understanding

digestion vs. understanding

agreement vs. understanding

understand vs. understanding

hang vs. understanding

knowing vs. understanding

grok vs. understanding

comity vs. understanding