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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A stance that attempts to understand the meaning of action from the actor’s point of view, so that the actor is seen as a subject rather than an object of observation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unadapted borrowing from German Verstehen or German verstehen (“to understand, comprehend”).
