understanding

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for understanding

understanding 🔊 /ʌˌndɚstæˈndɪŋ/

understanding : එකඟකම

understanding : සම්මතය

understanding : බුද්ධිය

understanding : වැටහීම

understanding : සංවේදය

understanding : අවබෝධය

understanding definition

p. pr. & vb. Noun. of Understand

Adjective. Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

Noun.

  1. The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
  2. An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.