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Understanding vs Creativity - What's the difference?

understanding | creativity |

As nouns the difference between understanding and creativity

is that understanding is mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature while creativity is the quality or ability to create or invent something.

As an adjective understanding

is showing compassion.

As a verb understanding

is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Creativity is

a minor nontheistic, ethnocentric religion based on racist beliefs.

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.}}

    creativity

    English

    Noun

  • The quality or ability to create or invent something.
    • His creativity is unsurpassed by his fellow students in the art class.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 9 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity , pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.}}

    Related terms

    * create * creation * creative

    Synonyms

    * (ability to create or invent): creativeness, originality.

    Anagrams

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