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1. understanding

   Mind, in a general sense, includes all the powers of sentient being apart from the physical factors in bodily faculties and activities; in a limited sense, mind is nearly synonymous with intellect, but includes disposition, or the tendency toward action, as appears in the phrase «to have a mind to work.» As the seat of mental activity, brain (colloquially brains) is often used as a synonym for mind, intellect, intelligence. Thought, the act, process, or power of thinking, is often used to denote the thinking faculty, and especially the reason. The instinct of animals is now held by many philosophers to be of the same nature as the intellect of man, but inferior and limited; yet the apparent difference is very great.

   An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction.

   Paley Natural Philosophy ch. 18.

   In this sense we speak of human instincts, thus denoting tendencies independent of reasoning or instruction. The soul includes the intellect, sensibilities, and will; beyond what is expressed by the word mind, the soul denotes especially the moral, the immortal nature; we say of a dead body, the soul (not the mind) has fled. Spirit is used especially in contradistinction from matter; it may in many cases be substituted for soul, but soul has commonly a fuller and more determinate meaning; we can conceive of spirits as having no moral nature; the fairies, elves, and brownies of mythology might be termed spirits, but not souls. In the figurative sense, spirit denotes animation, excitability, perhaps impatience; as, a lad of spirit; he sang with spirit; he replied with spirit. Soul denotes energy and depth of feeling, as when we speak of soulful eyes; or it may denote the very life of anything; as, «the hidden soul of harmony,» Milton L’Allegro l. 144. Sense may be an antonym of intellect, as when we speak of the sense of hearing; but sense is used also as denoting clear mental action, good judgment, acumen; as, he is a man of sense, or, he showed good sense; sense, even in its material signification, must be reckoned among the activities of mind, tho dependent on bodily functions; the mind, not the eye, really sees; the mind, not the ear, really hears. Consciousness includes all that a sentient being perceives, knows, thinks, or feels, from whatever source arising and of whatever character, kind, or degree, whether with or without distinct thinking, feeling, or willing; we speak of the consciousness of the brute, of the savage, or of the sage. The intellect is that assemblage of faculties which is concerned with knowledge, as distinguished from emotion and volition. Understanding is the Saxon word of the same general import, but is chiefly used of the reasoning powers; the understanding, which Sir Wm. Hamilton has called «the faculty of relations and comparisons,» is distinguished by many philosophers from reason in that «reason is the faculty of the higher cognitions or a priori truth.»

   Synonyms:
   brain, consciousness, disposition, instinct, intellect, intelligence, mind, reason, reason, sense, soul, spirit, thought

   Antonyms:
   body, brawn, brute force, material substance, matter

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1. understanding

   Synonyms:
   knowledge, discernment, interpretation, construction, agreement, intellect, intelligence, mind, sense, conception, reason, brains

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, misconstruction, mindlessness, irrationality

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1. understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvynoun

   the cognitive condition of someone who understands

   «he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect»

   Synonyms:
   sympathy, judgement, intellect, collar, perceptiveness, dread, discernment, appreciation, misgiving, taste, catch, sagaciousness, judgment, pinch, discretion, savvy, reason, apprehension, agreement, taking into custody, arrest, sagacity, apprehensiveness

   Antonyms:
   unperceptive, unperceiving

2. agreement, understandingnoun

   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»

   Synonyms:
   agreement, arrangement, savvy, apprehension, reason, correspondence, concord, intellect, sympathy, accord, discernment

   Antonyms:
   unperceptive, unperceiving

3. sympathy, understandingnoun

   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»

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, intellect, savvy, fellow feeling, discernment, reason, sympathy, agreement

   Antonyms:
   unperceptive, unperceiving

4. reason, understanding, intellectadjective

   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»

   Synonyms:
   intellect, rationality, savvy, apprehension, discernment, cause, reason, grounds, reasonableness, intellectual, agreement, ground, mind, sympathy

   Antonyms:
   unperceiving, unperceptive

5. understandingadjective

   characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

   «an understanding friend»

   Antonyms:
   unperceptive, unperceiving

Matched Categories

1. • Inclination
   • Statement

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1. understandingnoun

   Synonyms:
   intellect, mind, reason, sense, brains, thinking principle, reasoning faculty, rational faculty, discursive faculty, intellectual powers, intellectual faculties

2. understandingnoun

   Synonyms:
   intelligence, apprehension, comprehension, perception, knowledge, discernment, judgment, notion, idea

3. understandingnoun

   Synonyms:
   agreement, accord, unanimity

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1. List of paraphrases for «understanding»:

   understand, comprehension, agreement, knowledge, understood, awareness, interpretation, sympathy, insight, include, grasp, arrangement, understandings, perception, appreciation, comprehend, idea, intelligence, accord, concept, vision, comprehending

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1. Robert Spengler:

   This study is important for understanding the antiquity of drug use.

2. Andre Franklin:

   You never want to have to go and say,’ I’m behind and I don’t know when I’m going to get ahead,’ they have been understanding. I think they have been fair. But they are holding me to a standard I’m not able to meet. I’m working 40 hours a week and I still don’t have the money to catch up and I don’t have the money to move.

3. Sam Rainsy:

   I think this may be a good sign. A good start to come to some kind of understanding between the ruling party and the opposition, so that the ruling party becomes more tolerant and accepts the very existence of an opposition.

4. Mike Pompeo:

   I think there is a shared understanding of threat and a common purpose to ensure to keep energy at the right price and deter this threat.

5. Jillian York:

   Twitter has, over the years, refused to comply with unjust laws, laws that are not in line with international human rights standards, i am definitely concerned that [ Musk ] lacks the understanding of international human rights issues, and the ways in which state actors around the world have both placed demands for censorship on these platforms and have used them for the purposes of harm.

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• avenimiento, compromiso, comprensiónSpanish
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• intellectus, capiens, videns, intellegens, sciensLatin
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• forståelseNorwegian
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• пониманиеRussian
• förståelse, överenskommelseSwedish
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