Knowledgeable vs Understanding - What's the difference?
knowledgeable | understanding |
having knowledge, especially of a particular subject
educated and well informed
intelligent and perceptive
(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.
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, 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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As adjectives the difference between knowledgeable and understanding
is that knowledgeable is having knowledge, especially of a particular subject 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
.knowledgeable
English
Alternative forms
* knowledgableAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* unknowledgeableDerived terms
* knowledgeability * knowledgeableness * knowledgeablyunderstanding
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.}}
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* 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.}}