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incomprehension

noun

Etymology

From in- + comprehension.

  1. derived from comprehēnsiō — “taking together”
  2. borrowed from compréhension
  3. prefixed as incomprehension — “in + comprehension”

Definitions

  1. Lack of comprehension or understanding

    Lack of comprehension or understanding; inability to understand.

    • Stephen blushed; and his father looked from one to the other in a state of utter incomprehension.
    • (...) and the wearied worker, borne at evening through crowded undergrounds, might read his name with a listless incomprehension.
    • Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for incomprehension. 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