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Understanding
Definitions
- 1 Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware.
- 2 Knowing; skilful. dated
- 1 characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy wordnet
- 1 The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning. uncountable, with-of
"There are certain things that defy human understanding."
- 2 the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination wordnet
- 3 Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer. countable, with-of
"She has a solid understanding of particle physics."
- 4 the cognitive condition of someone who understands wordnet
- 5 Opinion, judgement, or outlook. countable, with-of
"It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust."
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- 6 an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion wordnet
- 7 An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.; An informal contract; a mutual agreement. countable, uncountable, with-of
"I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash."
- 8 the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises wordnet
- 9 An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.; A reconciliation of differences. countable, uncountable, with-of
"The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding."
- 10 Sympathy. uncountable, with-of
"He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past."
- 1 present participle and gerund of understand form-of, gerund, participle, present
"It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment."
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.
From Middle English understandyng, understondynge, understondinde, undirstondend, understandande, from Old English understandende, from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandandī, from Proto-Germanic *understandandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, intercede, understand”), equivalent to understand + -ing (present participle ending).
From Middle English understandyng, understondynge, understondinde, undirstondend, understandande, from Old English understandende, from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandandī, from Proto-Germanic *understandandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, intercede, understand”), equivalent to understand + -ing (present participle ending).
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