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Meaning of 'understanding' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Understanding [ a.]
- Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
2 . Understanding [ n.]
- The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
- An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
- 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.
- 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.
3 . Understanding [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
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Meaning of 'understanding' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . understanding [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the cognitive condition of someone who understands
Example in sentence:
  • he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect
Meaning (2):
- an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
Example in sentence:
  • his sympathies were always with the underdog;
  • I knew I could count on his understanding
Meaning (3):
- the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
Example in sentence:
  • there was an understanding between management and the workers;
  • they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business
Meaning (4):
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
Example in sentence:
  • we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil
5 . understanding [ s]
Meaning (5):
- characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy
Example in sentence:
  • an understanding friend

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