understandings
- 1Plural of understanding.
Diplomats spent months negotiating the quiet understandings that kept the ceasefire intact.
Different cultures bring different understandings of politeness to the same exchange.
Note
Only the countable meanings of understanding can take an -s. In the plural it usually means agreements or arrangements (quiet understandings between governments) or differing outlooks, often followed by of (different understandings of politeness). The mass senses stay singular: comprehension and sympathy. A kind person shows understanding, never understandings. Reach for the plural when you mean separate pacts or separate views, not more comprehension.
understandings is a form of understanding
understanding, noun: The mental process of grasping the meaning of something; the act of comprehending. Full entry
- Forms
- understandingunderstandings plural
- Spelling
- understanding → understandings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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