Grokking
[grok] /grɒk/ Slang.
verb (used with object)
1.
to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
verb (used without object)
2.
to communicate sympathetically.
v.
“to understand empathically,” 1961, arbitrary formation by U.S. science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) in his book “Stranger in a Strange Land.” In popular use 1960s; perhaps obsolete now except in internet technology circles.
verb
[coined by Robert A Heinlein as a Martian word in the 1961 science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land]
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