Difference between Comprehension and Understanding

What is the difference between Comprehension and Understanding?

Comprehension as a noun is thorough understanding while Understanding as a noun is mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

Comprehension

Part of speech: noun

Definition: thorough understanding The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion. a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages

Understanding

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.Opinion, judgement or outlook.An informal contract, mutual agreement.A reconciliation of differences.Sympathy.All that people individually sense and feel of ourselves.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Showing compassion.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To grasp a concept fully and thoroughly, especially (of words, statements, art, etc.) to be aware of the meaning of and (of people) to be aware of the intent of.

We hope you now know whether to use Comprehension or Understanding in your sentence.

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