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Understanding vs Stedfast - What's the difference?

understanding | stedfast |

As adjectives the difference between understanding and stedfast

is that understanding is showing compassion while stedfast is .

As a noun understanding

is (uncountable) mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

As a verb understanding

is .

understanding

English

(wikipedia understanding)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
  • (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
  • (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
  • (countable) An informal contract, mutual agreement.
  • (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
  • (uncountable) Sympathy.
  • All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.

    • See also

    * intellection

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing compassion.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}

    stedfast

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1908 , year_published=2006 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Julia de Wolf Addison , title=Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=…water is of itself fleeting, but by strength of cold it is turned and made stedfast crystal. }}
  • :* {{quote-magazine
    • , date=1915-08-23 , year= , month= , first= , last= , author=Frank P. Walsh , coauthors= , title=Perilous Philanthropy , volume= , issue= , page= , magazine=The Independent , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage= … Samuel Gompers directed against the whole Rockefeller investigation into industry, that organized labor will continue to remain sternly aloof and to view this new activity with stedfast distrust. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1935 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized Reprint , editor= , author=Charles Caldwell Dobie , title=San Francisco Tales , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=D. Appleton-Century , isbn= , page=190 , passage=Could heroics give her back her son? Nay, she must be stedfast , even though false security had betrayed her hidden softness. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1979 , year_published=2009 , edition=Fifth, Digitized , editor=James Alfred Stone , author=Edward Albert , quotee=John Keats , title=History of English Literature , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher=Harrap , isbn=9780245532474 , page= , passage=… Bright Star , would I were stedfast as thou art, are worthy to be ranked with those of Shakespeare. }}