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Impression vs Understanding - What's the difference?

impression | understanding | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between impression and understanding

is that impression is the indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another while understanding is mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

As an adjective understanding is

showing compassion.

As a verb understanding is

present participle of lang=en.

impression

English

(wikipedia impression)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
  • The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
  • An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
  • An outward appearance.
  • (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown once.
  • (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
  • (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

    • Related terms

    * impressionability * impressionable * impressional * impressionism * impressionist * impressive * under the impression

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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.}}