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"understanding" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often knowledge (9 letters).
Definitions
characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy
Word origin
From Middle English understandinge, understondinge, from Old English understanding (“intelligence, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandingu, from Proto-Germanic *understandingō, equivalent to understand + -ing (gerund ending). Cognate with Middle Dutch onderstaninge, Middle Low German understandinge, Middle High German understandunge.
Used in a sentence
“There are certain things that defy human understanding.”
“The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]”
“She has a solid understanding of particle physics.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Comprehension”13 letters
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