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Congenial vs Understanding - What's the difference?

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Congenial is a related term of understanding.


As adjectives the difference between congenial and understanding

is that congenial is having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests while understanding is showing compassion.

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

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congenial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
  • Friendly or sociable.
    • The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.
  • Suitable to one's needs.
  • * 1961 , J. A. Philip, Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato'', in ''Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92 , page 453-468:
    • ''What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?

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    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.}}