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The meaning of the word "Understanding" in English


Understanding p. pr. & vb. n. : of Understand

Understanding a. : Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

Understanding n. : The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

Understanding 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.

Understanding 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.

Understanding 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.

Example:
What exaxtly is your Understanding of how Understanding works?

Taxonomy
model, free encyclopedia, language, anxieties, correlations, abstractions, software, he/she, she knows, how to, inputs and outputs, computer functionality, pattern, computer, cause and effect, effect relationships, engineers, particles.

Defination from the web:
Understanding (also called intellection) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or ... A potential reason for the association of understanding with the former personality types is due to a social phenomenon for asymmetrical ... 

synonyms
  (noun) apprehension
  (noun) discernment
  (noun) savvy
  (noun) agreement
  (noun) sympathy
  (noun) reason
  (noun) intellect
  (noun) disposition
  (noun) faculty
  (noun) inclination
  (noun) knowing
  (noun) mental faculty
  (noun) module
  (noun) statement
  (noun) tendency
similar terms
  (adjective) perceptive


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