Synonyms of the word

understanding

• n. (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is…
• n. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
• n. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
• n. (countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.
• n. (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
• n. (uncountable) Sympathy.
• n. All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
• adj. Showing compassion.
• v. present participle of understand.

agreement

• n. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
• n. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting…
• n. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
• n. (uncountable, linguistics) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be…
• n. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

discernment

• n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
• n. Discrimination.
• n. The ability to distinguish between things.
• n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
• n. The condition of understanding.
• n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
• n. Perceptiveness.
• n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
• n. Discretion in judging objectively.

disposition

• n. The arrangement or placement of certain things.
• n. Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
• n. Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
• n. Control over something.
• n. (law) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
• n. (law) Final decision or settlement.
• n. (medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
• n. (music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
• v. To remove or place in a different position.

faculty

• n. The scholarly staff at schools, colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
• n. A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
• n. An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
• n. A power, authority or privilege conferred by a higher authority.

inclination

• n. A physical tilt or bend.
• n. A slant or slope.
• n. A mental tendency.
• n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
• n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

intellect

• n. the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty…
• n. the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable).
• n. a person who has that faculty to a great degree.

knowing

• adj. Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
• adj. Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
• adj. Suggestive of private knowledge.
• adj. Deliberate.
• v. present participle of know.
• n. The act or condition of having knowledge.

module

• n. A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the…
• n. (architecture) A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
• n. (computing) A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
• n. A unit of education covering a single topic.
• n. A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.
• n. (mathematics) An abelian group.
• n. (mathematics) An algebraic structure which behaves just like a vector space over a field F, except that…
• n. (fractal geometry, mathematics) A fractal element.
• n. (computing) A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker (called also mod or music…
• n. (hydraulics) A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
• n. (astronautics) An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.

perceptive

• adj. having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

reason

• n. A cause.
• n. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception,…
• n. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
• n. (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process…
• v. (intransitive) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute;…
• v. (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.
• v. (transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to…
• v. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
• v. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
• v. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
• v. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

savvy

• adj. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
• v. (informal) To understand.
• interj. (informal) Do you understand?
• n. Shrewdness.

statement

• n. A declaration or remark.
• n. A presentation of opinion or position.
• n. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
• n. (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special…

sympathy

• n. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
• n. The ability to share the feelings of another.
• n. A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
• n. Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

tendency

• n. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
• n. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.