comprehension
n. uncountablen. the ability to understand something fully. It is the act of following the meaning of a story, a conversation, or a difficult idea.
n. the capacity for understanding fully; the act or process of grasping with the mind. Often used in educational contexts to describe the ability to extract meaning from text or speech.
The reading test measures your level of comprehension.
The teacher provided a series of questions to check the students' comprehension of the complex historical text.
While the technical details were accurate, the sheer density of the prose hindered the general public's comprehension of the scientific discovery.
Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”).
Uncountable in its general sense; frequently paired with 'beyond' to describe something impossible to understand ('beyond my comprehension').