mutual understanding

1. 1.

   sympathy of each person for the other

   Synonymsmutual affection

   Broadersympathy

Questions about mutual understanding

What does mutual understanding mean?

mutual understanding means "sympathy of each person for the other".

What is another word for mutual understanding?

Close synonyms include mutual affection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mutual understanding a common word?

mutual understanding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.