Discovering
Understanding and discovering are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understanding" instead an adjective "Discovering".
Understanding
Understanding adjective - Having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another.
Discovering and understanding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discovering" instead an adjective "Understanding".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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But the series implies that Dust, although indeed bringing sin, also brings knowledge and understanding and discovering and curiosity and many other wonderful things, and that it's in a human's nature to be sinful and the Church shouldn't fight it.
Source: Literature / His Dark Materials - Understanding Boyfriend: After discovering Kushina's big secret and a few smaller ones, Minato gets frustrated by how many things he is expected to accept about her.
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These thoughts allow Atsuki to gain an understanding of events and of the mental state of the people they belong to, potentially discovering a SILENT and eliminating it.
Source: Visual Novel / Lux-Pain
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