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incomprehension

incomprehension noun: lack of comprehension or understanding; inability to understand.

Noun

incomprehension (uncountable)

  1. Lack of comprehension or understanding; inability to understand.
    • Stephen blushed; and his father looked from one to the other in a state of utter incomprehension.1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes
    • (...) and the wearied worker, borne at evening through crowded undergrounds, might read his name with a listless incomprehension.1901, M. P. Shiel, The Lord of the Sea

incomprehension meaning in Tamil

incomprehension in Tamil

உணருமாற்றலின்மை, உணராமை

Examples of incomprehension in a sentence

  • Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension.1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies:
  • Shevek watched with dull incomprehension.1974, Ursula Leguin, The Dispossessed:

Antonyms of incomprehension

Origin of incomprehension

From in- + comprehension.

Words formed from incomprehension

Questions about incomprehension

What does incomprehension mean?
Incomprehension means lack of comprehension or understanding; inability to understand.
What is incomprehension in Tamil?
Incomprehension in Tamil is உணருமாற்றலின்மை, உணராமை. See Incomprehension meaning in Tamil.
How do you use incomprehension in a sentence?
Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension.
What part of speech is incomprehension?
Incomprehension is a noun.

Words near incomprehension in the dictionary

  1. incomprehensibility
  2. incomprehensible
  3. incomprehensibleness
  4. incomprehensibles
  5. incomprehensibly
  6. incomprehension
  7. incomprehensive
  8. incomprehensively
  9. incomprehensiveness
  10. incompressable
  11. incompressibilities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incomprehension (page history and authors); incomprehension (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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