Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The faculty of understanding.
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- noun rare The state or condition of being
understanding .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I mean I am a non native speaker and Aldis, to me, is a marvel of understandingness .. or however that is supposed to be correctly phrased.
LEVERAGE: The 13th Step is "Shut Up About It Already." Rogers 2009
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She was so understanding; and was there a lapse somewhere in that very understandingness of her that made it the more restful -- that made her
The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919
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She smiled at him understandingly; the understandingness of her smile always went beyond her words.
The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915
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She smiled at him understandingly; the understandingness of her smile always went beyond her words.
The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915
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She smiled at him understandingly; the understandingness of her smile always went beyond her words.
The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915
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But there was an understandingness about him, that often you don't find.
Angels & Ministers Laurence Housman 1912
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I sometimes think there is something done to folks when they are learning to be parsons as takes out of them a part of a natural person's understandingness; and I would rather have told the doctor, but then he couldn't have told me whether these are the kind of things Christ died to make His
In Homespun 1891
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