Ununderstanding vs. Understanding: What's the Difference?
Ununderstanding and Understanding Definitions
Ununderstanding
Failure to understand; incomprehension.
Understanding
The ability by which one understands; intelligence
Concepts that are beyond the understanding of a child.
Ununderstanding
Not understanding.
Understanding
The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension
Do you have much understanding of calculus?.
Understanding
Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion
In my understanding, this is a good plan.
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Understanding
A usually implicit agreement between two or more people or groups
An understanding between neighbors over late-night noise.
Understanding
A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy
Can't you show some understanding for the poor child?.
Understanding
Characterized by or having good sense or compassion
An understanding teacher.
Understanding
The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.
Understanding
(countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
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Understanding
(countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.
Understanding
(countable) An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
Understanding
An informal contract; mutual agreement.
I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.
Understanding
A reconciliation of differences.
The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.
Understanding
(uncountable) Sympathy.
He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.
Understanding
Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance.
Understanding
(dated) Knowing; skilful.
Understanding
Present participle of understand
Understanding
Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
Understanding
The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
Understanding
An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people.
Understanding
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.
But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The perception of ideas in our mind; 2. The perception of the signification of signs; 3. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand.
In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension.
Understanding
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.
I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which "verstand" is now employed by the Germans.
Understanding
The cognitive condition of someone who understands;
He has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect
Understanding
The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
They had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business
There was an understanding between management and the workers
Understanding
An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion;
His sympathies were always with the underdog
I knew I could count on his understanding
Understanding
The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;
We are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil
Understanding
Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy;
An understanding friend
