Obs. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or condition of having understanding; the faculty of understanding.
a. 1628. F. Greville, Poems (1633), 60. In Mans youth, perchance, Fame multiplies Courage, and actiue vnderstandingnesse.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 25. In the understandingness of the understanding.
