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Definition of incomprehension in English: incomprehensionnoun ˌɪnkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃ(ə)nˌɪnˌkɑmprəˈhɛn(t)ʃən mass nounFailure to understand something. they gave him a look of complete incomprehension Example sentencesExamples - Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will.
- Children, left to their own devices, stand on the sidelines where they observe the grown-ups with a mixture of incomprehension and sudden insight.
- On the whole, not a great success, ending as it did in mumbling confession of love, response of utter incomprehension and threats of violence from older brother.
- It's then that I glance over at Irian, who is listening to our niceties with complete incomprehension.
- But, as my conversation with two Georgian fellows spilled out into the corridor, I sensed the rising waters of mutual incomprehension.
- It was a mix of sympathy, disappointment and incomprehension.
- So, what we have is not a clash of civilizations but mutual complicity in proliferating mutual incomprehension.
- Could it be because you're operating with complete incomprehension of their feelings - which this week are very, very touchy?
- On the other hand, there is still a very real cynicism, unease and basic incomprehension which prevents complete acceptance.
- She takes my incomprehension to signify that we'll never really understand each other and are thus, not each other's Ones.
- After a few moments of complete incomprehension, Em broke out of her daze and blinked up at her fellow instrumentalists.
- Official reaction was one of complete incomprehension as to how such a thing could even happen.
- When the appeal is turned down he looks at the umpire the way a teenager looks at his father when told he cannot have £50 for a night out: incomprehension.
- His fitful petulance, his unsuccessful attempts to take control, his complete incomprehension of adult assumptions and mores.
- In fact, it's only when I ask for another coffee that he complains, his voice pitched somewhere between disgust and incomprehension.
- Ilse looked at him with bemused incomprehension.
- I remember listening to Debussy preludes for the first couple of times with similar enjoyable incomprehension.
- I must have had an expression of absolute incomprehension, because she looked away from me and repeated the question in a slightly less emphatic tone.
- In one scene we see Vicki's complete incomprehension of the gangster talk that surrounds her.
- The tone betrayed his incomprehension of those stupid blue collar voters who don't understand their own interests as well as Matt does, but the facts were welcome.
Synonyms bewilderment, confusion, puzzlement, perplexity, bafflement, befuddlement, stupefaction, mystification, disorientation, dumbfoundedness, astonishment
Definition of incomprehension in US English: incomprehensionnounˌɪnˌkɑmprəˈhɛn(t)ʃənˌinˌkämprəˈhen(t)SHən Failure to understand something. they gave him a look of complete incomprehension Example sentencesExamples - So, what we have is not a clash of civilizations but mutual complicity in proliferating mutual incomprehension.
- But, as my conversation with two Georgian fellows spilled out into the corridor, I sensed the rising waters of mutual incomprehension.
- On the whole, not a great success, ending as it did in mumbling confession of love, response of utter incomprehension and threats of violence from older brother.
- In fact, it's only when I ask for another coffee that he complains, his voice pitched somewhere between disgust and incomprehension.
- Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will.
- I must have had an expression of absolute incomprehension, because she looked away from me and repeated the question in a slightly less emphatic tone.
- The tone betrayed his incomprehension of those stupid blue collar voters who don't understand their own interests as well as Matt does, but the facts were welcome.
- After a few moments of complete incomprehension, Em broke out of her daze and blinked up at her fellow instrumentalists.
- I remember listening to Debussy preludes for the first couple of times with similar enjoyable incomprehension.
- Children, left to their own devices, stand on the sidelines where they observe the grown-ups with a mixture of incomprehension and sudden insight.
- In one scene we see Vicki's complete incomprehension of the gangster talk that surrounds her.
- Ilse looked at him with bemused incomprehension.
- Could it be because you're operating with complete incomprehension of their feelings - which this week are very, very touchy?
- She takes my incomprehension to signify that we'll never really understand each other and are thus, not each other's Ones.
- When the appeal is turned down he looks at the umpire the way a teenager looks at his father when told he cannot have £50 for a night out: incomprehension.
- It's then that I glance over at Irian, who is listening to our niceties with complete incomprehension.
- It was a mix of sympathy, disappointment and incomprehension.
- Official reaction was one of complete incomprehension as to how such a thing could even happen.
- His fitful petulance, his unsuccessful attempts to take control, his complete incomprehension of adult assumptions and mores.
- On the other hand, there is still a very real cynicism, unease and basic incomprehension which prevents complete acceptance.
Synonyms bewilderment, confusion, puzzlement, perplexity, bafflement, befuddlement, stupefaction, mystification, disorientation, dumbfoundedness, astonishment
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