agreement vs understanding

agreement

noun
  • An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. 

  • Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts. 

  • A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. 

  • A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. 

understanding

noun
  • The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment. 

  • Opinion, judgement or outlook. 

  • An informal contract; mutual agreement. 

  • A reconciliation of differences. 

  • Sympathy. 

  • Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer. 

adj
  • Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance. 

How often have the words agreement and understanding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )