Usually means: Grasping meaning, context, and implications.
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  1. understanding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. understanding: Merriam-Webster
  3. understanding, understanding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. understanding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. understanding: Collins English Dictionary
  6. understanding: Vocabulary.com
  7. Understanding, understanding: Wordnik
  8. understanding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. understanding: Wiktionary
  10. understanding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. understanding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. understanding: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. understanding: Dictionary.com
  14. understanding: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. understanding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Understanding (Memphis Bleek album), Understanding (Bobby Womack album), Understanding (John Patton album), Understanding (TV series), Understanding (Xscape album), Understanding (disambiguation), Understanding (song), Understanding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Understanding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. understanding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. understanding: Rhymezone
  20. Understanding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. understanding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. understanding: FreeDictionary.org
  23. understanding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Understanding: The Word Detective
  25. understanding: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understanding: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understanding: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. understanding: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. understanding: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. understanding: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Understanding: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (understanding)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
▸ noun:  (countable) Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.
▸ noun:  (countable) Opinion, judgement, or outlook.
▸ noun:  (countable) An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
▸ noun:  An informal contract; a mutual agreement.
▸ noun:  A reconciliation of differences.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Sympathy.
▸ adjective:  Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware.
▸ adjective:  (dated) Knowing; skilful.

Similar:
apprehension, agreement, reason, discernment, sympathy, perceptive, intellect, savvy, knowledge, comprehension, more...

Opposite:
confusion, ignorance, misunderstanding, unawareness, incomprehension

Phrases:
mutual understanding, self understanding, memorandum of understanding, on the understanding that, come to an understanding, more...

Adjectives:
better, clearer, mutual, deeper, greater, human, fuller, thorough, complete, common, proper

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Similar:
apprehension, agreement, reason, discernment, sympathy, perceptive, intellect, savvy, knowledge, comprehension, more...

Opposite:
confusion, ignorance, misunderstanding, unawareness, incomprehension

Phrases:
mutual understanding, self understanding, memorandum of understanding, on the understanding that, come to an understanding, machine understanding, memoranda of understanding, beyond understanding, more...

Adjectives:
better, clearer, mutual, deeper, greater, human, fuller, thorough, complete, common, proper

Colors:
    blue,     teal,     turquoise,     aqua,     sky blue, more...



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