Consent vs Understanding - What's the difference?
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To express willingness, to give permission.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
(medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
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(obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
* (rfdate) Milton
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
* (rfdate) Bible, Acts viii. 1
* (rfdate) Fuller
Voluntary agreement or permission.
*, II.6:
(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= (countable) An informal contract, mutual agreement.
(countable) A reconciliation of differences.
(uncountable) Sympathy.
All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
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Consent is a related term of understanding.
As verbs the difference between consent and understanding
is that consent is to express willingness, to give permission while understanding is .As nouns the difference between consent and understanding
is that consent is voluntary agreement or permission while understanding is (uncountable) mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.As an adjective understanding is
showing compassion.consent
English
(wikipedia consent)Verb
(en verb)- ''I've consented to have the procedure performed.
- My poverty, but not my will, consents .
- Interpreters will not consent it to be a true story.
- And Saul was consenting unto his death.
- Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (intransitive) acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur,Antonyms
* (intransitive) disagree, , opposeDerived terms
* consentingNoun
(en noun)- All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.
Synonyms
* (voluntary agreement) agreement, approval, assent, permission, willingness,Antonyms
* (voluntary agreement) dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusalDerived terms
* consenter * consentaneous * age of consentunderstanding
English
(wikipedia understanding)Noun
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.}}
See also
* intellectionVerb
(head)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.}}
