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Definition of Understanding

Understanding of Understand Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man. 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. Related Definitions: Act, Adapt, Adjustment, Agreed, Agreement, An, And, Another, Any, Anything, As, By, Capacities, Collectively, Come, Comprehension, Conceived, Contrasted, Designated, Discernment, Discursive, Distinguish, Distinguished, Explanation, Faculty, Falsehood, Feeling, From, General, Harmony, He, In, Intellect, Intellectual, Intelligence, Intelligent, Interpretation, Is, It, Knowing, Knowledge, Man, Medium, Mutually, Of, One, Opinion, Or, Power, Rational, Reason, Sense, Skillful, Specifically, The, Thing, This, To, Truth, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Upon, Use, Verb, Who, With

Understanding Quotations Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. Burt Rutan Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music. Michael T. Thomas My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Maya Angelou It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair

Understanding Translations understanding in Afrikaans is verband, begrip understanding in Danish is forhold understanding in Dutch is verband, omgang, betrekking understanding in French is intelligence, comprenant, rapprochement understanding in Italian is comprensione understanding in Latin is intempestivus

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