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Indulgence vs Understanding - What's the difference?

indulgence | understanding | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between indulgence and understanding

is that indulgence is the act of indulging while understanding is mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

As verbs the difference between indulgence and understanding

is that indulgence is (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence while understanding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective understanding is

showing compassion.

indulgence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of indulging
  • * Hammond
    • They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
  • tolerance
  • catering to someone's every desire
  • something in which someone indulges
  • An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
  • * Rogers
    • If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
  • (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 555:
    • To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.

    Related terms

    * indulge * indulgent

    Verb

    (indulgenc)
  • (Roman Catholic Church ) to provide with an indulgence

    • 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.}}