Understanding

The mental faculty of comprehending, apprehending the meaning or import of, or grasping ideas;

possessing knowledge coupled with the discriminating power of abstract thought to arrive at judgements relating to the applicability of that knowledge – and synthesizing such knowledge to work out or ascertain the underlying reason or reasons for a pattern, event, or situation, etc.

(see also: interpretation, judgement, explanation, evaluation, judgement, prediction, decision, inference, reasoning)

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