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Lack of comprehension or understanding; inability to understand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine As a guest lecturer in Nelson's class, Miller ran through his ideas for a Xanadu-like software system. Afterward, he was approached by one of the students, Stuart Greene. Miller asked Greene what the reaction to his ideas had been. Not so good, Greene informed him. As always, the class had listened in dumb incomprehension. They seldom understood what Nelson was talking about [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
an inability to understand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his incomprehension of the consequences
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: comprehension
Broader terms: inability
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English comprehension English incomprehension From in- + comprehension.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
incompréhension
— lack of comprehension
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Hungarian:
értetlenség
— lack of comprehension
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Italian:
incomprensione
— lack of comprehension
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Japanese:
無理解
(murikai)
— lack of comprehension
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Polish:
niezrozumienie
— lack of comprehension
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Russian:
непонима́ние
(neponimánije)
— lack of comprehension
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Ukrainian:
нерозумі́ння
(nerozumínnja)
— lack of comprehension
