understanding
Meaning
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- The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.
- Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.
- Opinion, judgement, or outlook.
- An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
- An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
- Sympathy.
Synonyms
mutual understanding
ability
close relationship
good taste
Buddhist enlightenment
consenting to
being convinced of
being satisfied
comprehensive faculty
becoming acquainted
being acquainted
intuitive feeling
gnosia
meeting mind
looking through
Frequency
Hyphenated as
un‧der‧stand‧ing
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʌndəˈstandɪŋ/
Etymology
From Middle English understandinge, understondinge, from Old English understanding (“intelligence, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandingu, from Proto-Germanic *understandingō, equivalent to understand + -ing (gerund ending). Cognate with Middle Dutch onderstaninge, Middle Low German understandinge, Middle High German understandunge.
New
understand
- (of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- To regard as present when not.
- To stand underneath, to support.
- To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);
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