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inapprehension

noun

Etymology

From in- + apprehension.

  1. borrowed from apprehensio
  2. prefixed as inapprehension — “in + apprehension”

Definitions

  1. Failure to notice

    Failure to notice; failure to be aware of; lack of apprehension.

    • He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.
    • Camile is naturally disgusted with Paul but he doesn't seem to apprehend her reason—it is this inapprehension of the obvious which creates the tension.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inapprehension. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA