"understanding" Definition

Definitions for the word "understanding" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. p. pr. & vb. n.
of Understand
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 ability to understand or think; intelligence. 2 individual''s perception of a situation etc. 3 agreement, esp. Informal (had an understanding). 4 sympathy; tolerance. adj. 1 having understanding or insight. 2 sympathetic. understandingly adv.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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