Compassion vs. Understanding

Compassionnoun

Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it.

Compassionverb

(obsolete) To pity.

Compassionnoun

Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.

Compassionverb

To pity.

Compassionnoun

a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering

Compassionnoun

the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

Compassionnoun

sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others

Compassion

Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to help the physical, mental, or emotional pains of another and themselves. Compassion is often regarded as having sensitivity, which is an emotional aspect to suffering.

Understandingnoun

(uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

Understandingnoun

(countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.

Understandingnoun

(countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.

Understandingnoun

(countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.

Understandingnoun

(countable) A reconciliation of differences.

Understandingnoun

(uncountable) Sympathy.

Understandingadjective

Showing compassion.

Understandingadjective

(dated) Knowing; skilful.

Understandingverb

present participle of understand

Understandingadjective

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

Understandingnoun

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

Understandingnoun

An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.

Understandingnoun

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.

Understandingnoun

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.

Understandingnoun

the cognitive condition of someone who understands;

Understandingnoun

the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;

Understandingnoun

an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion;

Understandingnoun

the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;

Understandingadjective

characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy;

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 use concepts to model that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding.