entendement
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French
Etymology
From entendre (“to understand”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
entendement m (uncountable)
- understanding, comprehension
- Synonym: compréhension
- dépasser l’entendement ― to be beyond comprehension, to beggar belief
- the intellect, capacity of rational understanding
- 1647, René Descartes, translated by Louis-Charles d'Albert de Luynes, Méditations métaphysiques [Meditations on First Philosophy]:
- les corps mêmes ne sont pas proprement connus par les sens ou par la faculté d’imaginer, mais par le seul entendement […]
- The very bodies are not strictly known through the senses or the faculty of imagination, but only by the intellect
Derived terms
Further reading
- “entendement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.