单词 | inapprehension |
释义 | inapprehensionn. 1. Want of apprehension; failure to apprehend or grasp mentally. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [noun] unsensibleness?1555 headlesshood1579 senselessness1580 vacuity1593 incomprehension1605 insensibleness1610 unintelligiblenessa1631 insensateness1646 mindlessness1646 inapprehensiveness1652 unapprehensiveness1669 non-intelligencea1674 unperceivingnessa1688 inapprehension1745 inconception1761 brainlessness1832 vacancy1841 uncomprehension1862 1745 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl.: Pt. 2 17 An intire inapprehension of the very Drift and Purpose of it. a1808 R. Hurd Serm. in Wks. (1811) VI. xxi. 306 It is not envy, but inapprehension, which sets them on work. 1843 E. A. Poe Purloined Let. in Gift 1845 57 The moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident. 2. Absence of apprehension of danger. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > quality of being unforeseen > [noun] > state of not foreseeing inapprehension1865 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Oct. 5 He took advantage of their inapprehension and defenceless condition to gratify the worst passions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1745 |
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