Understanding vs. Knowing
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.
Knowingadjective
Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
Knowingadjective
Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
Knowingadjective
Suggestive of private knowledge.
Knowingadjective
Deliberate
Knowingnoun
The act or condition of having knowledge.
Knowingadjective
Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.
Knowingadjective
Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
Knowingnoun
Knowledge; hence, experience.
Knowingnoun
clear and certain mental apprehension
Knowingadjective
evidencing the possession of inside information
Knowingadjective
by conscious design or purpose;
Knowingadjective
alert and fully informed;
Knowingadjective
highly educated; having extensive information or understanding;
