What does understanding mean?
Definitions for understanding
ˌʌn dərˈstæn dɪŋun·der·stand·ing
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word understanding.
Princeton's WordNet
understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy(noun)
the cognitive condition of someone who understands
"he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
agreement, understanding(noun)
the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
"they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers"
sympathy, understanding(noun)
an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
"his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding"
reason, understanding, intellect(adj)
the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
"we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
understanding(adj)
characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy
"an understanding friend"
Wiktionary
understanding(Noun)
Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
understanding(Noun)
Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
understanding(Noun)
Opinion, judgement or outlook.
According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.
understanding(Noun)
An informal contract, mutual agreement.
I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.
understanding(Noun)
A reconciliation of differences.
The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.
understanding(Noun)
Sympathy.
He showed much understanding when he found out of my troublesome familial history.
understanding(Noun)
All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
understanding(Adjective)
Showing compassion.
Webster Dictionary
Understanding
of Understand
Understanding(adj)
knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man
Understanding(noun)
the act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation
Understanding(noun)
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(noun)
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(noun)
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
Freebase
Understanding
Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge sufficient to support intelligent behavior. An understanding is the limit of a conceptualization. To understand something is to have conceptualized it to a given measure.
Editors Contribution
understanding
The intuitive feeling, knowing, intelligence, act, fact and ability to understand.
It was their understanding that both their families would be attending the full wedding and cousins attending the afters of the wedding.
Submitted by MaryC on January 20, 2020understanding
Verb from of the word understand.
The understanding of the team is accurate and clear so we always remain united through all moments of time.
Submitted by MaryC on August 14, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'understanding' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1354
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'understanding' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2137
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'understanding' in Nouns Frequency: #610
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of understanding in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of understanding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of understanding in a Sentence
The contributions that they( African Americans) have made have been so spectacular to our country, so to see the president demean a great leader like Elijah Cummings, shows his own insecurity and his own lack of understanding about what progress really is.
Planners need to have a broad vision of development, taking into account the need of working classes, and the understanding of the sociology of the poor.
We still dont know what the mating behavior of a mature female would be, but its one step forward in our understanding of whale shark reproductive biology.
What we do is expose the value proposition to them such that it outweighs what they perceive as the risks, it’s no different from you getting up in the morning and getting in a car, bus or subway and going to work and understanding that there is an innate risk in doing so. It’s not our job to basically tell you what you think is risky or not.
The NLRB has totally upset the apple cart with respect to an understanding over accepted business risk.
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- فهم, رؤية, تفاهمArabic
- comprensiuCatalan, Valencian
- dohoda, porozumění, pochopeníCzech
- forståelse, aftale, forstand, forståendeDanish
- Verständnis, verständnisvoll, Einigung, Vereinbarung, VerstehenGerman
- κατανόησηGreek
- intelektoEsperanto
- comprensión, avenimiento, compromisoSpanish
- myötätuntoinen, ymmärrys, sovinto, yhteisymmärrys, käsitys, käsittäminen, ymmärtäminen, myötätunto, näkemys, ymmärtäväinen, näkökulmaFinnish
- compréhensionFrench
- aontachadh, còrdadhScottish Gaelic
- comprensioneItalian
- הבנהHebrew
- 納得Japanese
- videns, sciens, intellegens, capiens, intellectusLatin
- verstandhouding, overeenkomstDutch
- forståelseNorwegian
- compreensão, compreensivoPortuguese
- пониманиеRussian
- överenskommelse, förståelseSwedish
- masikizanoSwahili
- anlayışTurkish
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