Origin: Latin suffix -sion
Comprehension has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)
"how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"
"he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"
the relation of comprising something
"he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work"
thorough understanding
"After reading the complex manual twice, she finally achieved full comprehension of how to operate the machine."
Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō ("taking together"), from com- ("with, together") + prehendō ("take").