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Understanding vs Sufferance - What's the difference?

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Understanding is a related term of sufferance.


As nouns the difference between understanding and sufferance

is that understanding is (uncountable) mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature while sufferance is (lb) endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.

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.}}

    sufferance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sufferaunce

    Noun

  • (lb) Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:but hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise
  • *1826 , (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), The Last Man , Ch.4,
  • *:I indulged in this meditation for a moment, and then again addressed the mourner, who stood leaning against the bed with that expression of resigned despair, of complete misery, and a patient sufferance of it, which is far more touching than any of the insane ravings or wild gesticulation of untamed sorrow.
  • Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:In their beginning they are weak and wan, / But soon, through sufferance , grow to fearful end.
  • *(Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
  • *:Somewhiles by sufferance , and somewhiles by special leave and favour, they erected to themselves oratories.
  • *1910 , (Arthur Quiller-Couch), Lady Good-for-Nothing , Ch.20,
  • *:When his talk trespasses beyond sufferance , I chastise him.
  • (lb) Suffering; pain, misery.
  • *, II.37:
  • *:The sufferances which simply touch us in minde, doe much lesse afflict me, then most men.
  • *1612 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VIII , act 2, sc.3,
  • *:'Tis a sufferance panging / As soul and body's severing.
  • *1819 , (Lord Byron), , II.147:
  • *:the streak / Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay, / Where the blue veins looked shadowy, shrunk, and weak.
  • (lb) Loss; damage; injury.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:a grievoussufferance on most part of their fleet
  • A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.

    • Related terms

    * on sufferance

    References

    * * * * “ * “ sufferance” in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * * “ sufferance” in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * “ sufferance” at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006).