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What is another word for ability to understand?

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Noun
The fact of understanding, or the ability to understand (something)
comprehension
understanding
awareness
knowledge
apprehension
perception
grasp
appreciation
cognizance
conception
discernment
interpretation
sense
realisationUK
realizationUS
cognition
grip
apperception
take
percipience
judgmentUS
judgementUK
ability
hold
command
ken
capacity
aha
prehension
double take
slow take
increased understanding
idea
inkling
ability to imagine
clue about
consciousness
recognition
insight
familiarity
enlightenment
impression
acquaintance
assimilation
notion
observation
mindfulness
concept
attention
knowingness
thought
intuition
observance
picture
perceptiveness
view
acknowledgementUK
insight into
sensibility
perceptivity
acknowledgmentUS
notice
estimation
regard
assessment
consideration
conceit
cognisance
wariness
viewpoint
apprehending
realizingUS
vision
familiarity with
erudition
wisdom
acquaintance with
reading
realisingUK
alertness
heedfulness
heed
information
acquaintanceship
learning
intelligence
understanding of
comprehension of
belief
image
intellect
intellection
education
mastery
experience
note
vigilance
sapience
attentiveness
decipherment
sentience
responsiveness
uptake
advertence
advertency
knowledgeableness
schooling
discrimination
grasp of
tuition
better understanding
sense of
awareness of
cognizance of
knowledge of
sensitivity to
clear understanding
knowing
know-how
firm grasp
clear message
acumen
penetration
perspicacity
sentiment
perspective
sensitivity
sympathy
respect
handle
valuation
purview
concern
cultivation
esteem
care
appraisal
ear
sageness
sagaciousness
clearer picture
learnedness
scholarship
conversance
instruction
sensitiveness
self-awareness
self-understanding
wakefulness
greater understanding
comprehensive understanding
enhanced understanding
improved understanding
superior understanding
clearer vision
clearer view
eye
imagination
awakening
achievement
clearer insight
clearer understanding
clearer awareness
intimacy
aesthetic sense
sensibility to
knowledge base
fluency
feel
clear interpretation
clear idea
clear view
clear impression
clear conclusion
clear notion
clear belief
light bulb moment
aha moment
reasoning
reason
mind
need
thinking
feeling
acquaintanceship with
proficiency
conscious thought
attitude
expertise
visualisationUK
gyan
conversancy with
conversance with
proficiency in
expertise in
sensation
skill
apprehension of
study
skill in
grapple
absorption
appreciation of
good understanding
digestion
visualizationUS
recognition of
command of
realization of
perception of
conception of
mastery of
ken of
taste
light
abstraction
theory
hypothesis
conceptualizationUS
cogitation
fancy
postulation
generality
generalizationUS
representation
clue
stereotype
model
deliberation
speculation
version
musing
plan
design
meditation
imagining
dream
cogitating
envisaging
philosophizingUS
fancying
meditating
considering
exposition
generalisationUK
philosophisingUK
conceptualisationUK
mind's eye
mental grasp
“There doesn't seem to be any ability to understand how or why terrorists might be led to do the admittedly horrifying and awful and frightful things that they've done.”
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