Antonyms for incomprehension
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : in-kom-pri-hen-shuh n, in-kom- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn kɒm prɪˈhɛn ʃən, ɪnˌkɒm- |
Definition of incomprehension
Origin :- c.1600, from in- (1) "not" + comprehension.
- As in illiteracy : noun ignorance
- As in illiterateness : noun ignorance
- As in nescience : noun ignorance
- As in obliviousness : noun ignorance
- As in unawareness : noun ignorance
- As in unconsciousness : noun ignorance
- As in unfamiliarity : noun ignorance
- As in ignorance : noun unintelligence, inexperience
- She started: I recall that her eyes were round and troubled with incomprehension.
- Extract from : « The Cruise of the Shining Light » by Norman Duncan
- The man's face wore a sudden crafty look of incomprehension.
- Extract from : « The Secret Witness » by George Gibbs
- He goes on where we are balked by the obstacles of incomprehension.
- Extract from : « Revolution and Other Essays » by Jack London
- All the rest is only numbed pain and incomprehension,—weeks and months.
- Extract from : « The Wasted Generation » by Owen Johnson
- It did not occur to him to go on acting, to pretend astonishment or incomprehension.
- Extract from : « The House by the River » by A. P. Herbert
- Then, shrugging his shoulders with incomprehension, fearlessly he sought to forget about it.
- Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey
- It was a subject too terrible, from which her mind retreated with awe and incomprehension.
- Extract from : « Sir Tom » by Mrs. Oliphant
- Dicky was all incomprehension; but something made him feel a little sick.
- Extract from : « A Child of the Jago » by Arthur Morrison
- Neil stood as though appalled by his companion's incomprehension.
- Extract from : « The Courage of Captain Plum » by James Oliver Curwood
- This she did not comprehend, attributing her incomprehension to his incoherence.
- Extract from : « Martin Eden » by Jack London
Synonyms for incomprehension
- benightedness
- bewilderment
- blindness
- callowness
- crudeness
- darkness
- denseness
- disregard
- dumbness
- empty-headedness
- fog
- half-knowledge
- illiteracy
- illiterateness
- incapacity
- incomprehension
- innocence
- inscience
- insensitivity
- lack of education
- mental incapacity
- naiveté
- nescience
- oblivion
- obliviousness
- obtuseness
- philistinism
- rawness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unfamiliarity
- unscholarliness
- vagueness
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