incomprehension
lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
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How to use incomprehension in a sentence
Snow declared that a gulf of mutual incomprehension divided literary intellectuals and scientists.
Who Said Science and Art Were Two Cultures? - Issue 108: Change | Kevin Berger | November 17, 2021 | NautilusAn excellent argument against Roman Catholicism I would say, and Greene might well stare in blank incomprehension at my pages.
There were those who lagged behind out of incomprehension, political calculation, or timidity.
The rest of the world has reacted to the idea of such a child with horror and incomprehension.
The man's face wore a sudden crafty look of incomprehension.
The Secret Witness | George Gibbs
I dare say Im unjust, but Im living in another world, and this shocks me—the incomprehension of it all!
The Wasted Generation | Owen JohnsonTrask's efforts to explain the political and social structure of the Sword-Worlds met the same incomprehension from Bentrik.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperBut our incomprehension is due even more to our ignorance of the strange and devious workings of the German mind.
German Problems and Personalities | Charles SaroleaIt did not occur to him to go on acting, to pretend astonishment or incomprehension.
The House by the River | A. P. Herbert
British Dictionary definitions for incomprehension
/ (ˌɪnkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən, ɪnˌkɒm-) /
inability or failure to comprehend; lack of understanding
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