Understanding vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
understanding | intelligent |
(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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
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, chapter=5, title= Well thought-out, well considered.
Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
As adjectives the difference between understanding and intelligent
is that understanding is showing compassion while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.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
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.}}
intelligent
English
Alternative forms
* entelligentAdjective
(en-adj)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}