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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



... the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... Not understanding how he could have forgotten me so soon, I looked at him inquiringly, at which his face lighted up, and he ...
— The Bronze Hand - 1897 • Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)
... connexion begun to be established between the two nations, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed a treaty of friendship and commerce, designed to serve as a foundation for their mutual good correspondence. His majesty, the French king, being resolved to cultivate the present good understanding subsisting between France and Great Britain by every means compatible with his dignity and the good of his subjects, thinks it necessary to make his proceeding known to the court of London, and to declare at the same time that the contracting parties have paid ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... you up. Now, G. W., open your eyes! See the light-house shining like a slim white finger? That's Montauk Point, comrade, stretching along in the sea. They are going to land us here to rest a bit before we go home. Are you understanding, ...
— A Little Dusky Hero • Harriet T. Comstock
... and singularity.[12] The contradiction of a common prejudice, which always passes for paradox, is often such only in appearance. It is true that an ingenious person may take advantage of the elusive nature of language to play tricks with the ordinary understanding, but it is equally true that words of themselves have a way of imposing on the uninquiring mind and passing themselves off at an inflated value. No process is more familiar than that by which words in the course of a long life lose all their original power, and yet they will ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin


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