Fathom
Fathom verb - To measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line.
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Understanding and fathom are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Understanding" with "Fathom", this verbs are similar.
Understanding
Understanding adjective - Having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another.
Fathom and understanding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fathom" instead a verb "Understanding".
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The gap between it and human beings is so immense that communicating with it to fathom its thoughts is completely impossible even though it's fully capable of understanding human speech.
Source: Eldritch Abomination / Anime - A few other tidbits: they can't fathom hate or dislike anyone or thing with more than a "mild distaste," this is because they devote so much time to understanding things that they can never truly hate it.
- As Carolinus has often said, Jim's expertise with magic would scarcely be enough to graduate him past a C rank, but his understanding of people and danger, beyond anything the other humans in his new time can fathom, provide a far more vast pool of potential than anyone can expect.
Source: Literature / The Dragon Knight
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