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Understanding vs Lenience - What's the difference?

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Understanding is a related term of lenience.


In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between understanding and lenience

is that understanding is (uncountable) sympathy while lenience is (uncountable) leniency: mercy or forgiveness in the assignment of punishment.

In countable|lang=en terms the difference between understanding and lenience

is that understanding is (countable) a reconciliation of differences while lenience is (countable) a leniency: a specific act or instance of leniency.

As nouns the difference between understanding and lenience

is that understanding is (uncountable) mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature while lenience is (uncountable) leniency: mercy or forgiveness in the assignment of punishment.

As an adjective understanding

is showing compassion.

As a verb understanding

is .

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.}}

    lenience

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Leniency: mercy or forgiveness in the assignment of punishment.
  • :There was lenience in the sentence given by the court, and he got the minimum prison time.
  • (countable) A leniency: a specific act or instance of leniency.