UNDERSTANDING
\ˌʌndəstˈandɪŋ], \ˌʌndəstˈandɪŋ], \ˌʌ_n_d_ə_s_t_ˈa_n_d_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of UNDERSTANDING
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
By Princeton University
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the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
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The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
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An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
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The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
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An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Intelligent.
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The reasoning faculties; the mind; state of knowing, or power to know; comprehension; an agreement.
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Understandingly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The act of comprehending: the faculty or the act of the mind by which it understands or thinks: the power to understand: knowledge: exact comprehension: agreement of minds: harmony.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Intellectual apprehension.
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The faculty by which one understands.
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The facts of a case as apprehended.
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An informal compact.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Comprehending the ideas or sense of another.
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That power of the mind by which it is enabled to receive or comprehend the real state of things presented to it, or that by which men derive ideas from sensations; the faculty of reflection and generalisation; among Ger. metaphysicians, the faculty of the mind which deals with real, practical, and material knowledge, and the adaptation of means to ends, and which is distinguished from reason; intellect; comprehension; conception; intelligence; terms of communication.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
