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κατανόηση — meaning in English

katanoisi

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English meaning

  • comprehension noun The ability to understand something, or the act of understanding it.
  • empathy noun The ability to understand and share someone else's feelings.
  • grasp verb To grip something firmly, typically with the hand.
  • understanding noun The mental grasp of what something means or how it works.

Senses

κατανόηση is used for these senses in English:

  • comprehension A thorough understanding.
  • empathy The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
  • grasp Understanding.
  • understanding (countable) Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.

comprehension — full definition

  1. noun The ability to understand something, or the act of understanding it.
  2. noun (education) An exercise that tests a reader's understanding of a passage of text.

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