Comprehension vs. Understanding
Comprehensionnoun
thorough understanding
Comprehensionnoun
(logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
Comprehensionnoun
(programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.
Comprehensionnoun
(Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
Comprehensionnoun
The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
Comprehensionnoun
That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.
Comprehensionnoun
The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
Comprehensionnoun
The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.
Comprehensionnoun
A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.
Comprehensionnoun
an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result);
Comprehensionnoun
the relation of comprising something;
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.
