Kind vs. Understanding
Kindnoun
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
Kindnoun
A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
Kindnoun
(archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
Kindnoun
Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
Kindnoun
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
Kindnoun
(Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
Kindadjective
Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
Kindadjective
Affectionate.
Kindadjective
Favorable.
Kindadjective
Mild, gentle, forgiving
Kindadjective
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
Kindadjective
(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Kindadjective
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Kindadjective
Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
Kindadjective
Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
Kindadjective
Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
Kindadjective
Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
Kindnoun
Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
Kindnoun
Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
Kindnoun
Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
Kindverb
To beget.
Kindnoun
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
Kindadjective
having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior;
Kindadjective
liberal;
Kindadjective
conducive to comfort; beneficial;
Kindadjective
expressing sympathy
Kindadjective
characterized by mercy, and compassion;
Kindadjective
agreeable;
Kindadjective
helpful to other people;
Kindadjective
tolerant and forgiving under provocation;
Kindadjective
showing consideration and anticipation of needs;
Kindadjective
generously responsive;
Kindnoun
a group of people or things having similar characteristics
Kindnoun
character or nature
Kindnoun
each of the elements (bread and wine) of the Eucharist
Kindadjective
having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature
Kindadjective
used in a polite request
Kindadjective
(of a consumer product) gentle on (a part of the body)
Kindadjective
affectionate or loving.
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.
