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incomprehensiveness

incomprehensiveness noun: the condition of being incomprehensive.

Noun

incomprehensiveness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being incomprehensive.
    • To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary...1999 December 27, Frederic Golden, “Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Person of the century”, in CNN

Origin of incomprehensiveness

From incomprehensive + -ness.

Questions about incomprehensiveness

What does incomprehensiveness mean?
Incomprehensiveness means the condition of being incomprehensive.
What part of speech is incomprehensiveness?
Incomprehensiveness is a noun.

Words near incomprehensiveness in the dictionary

  1. incomprehensibles
  2. incomprehensibly
  3. incomprehension
  4. incomprehensive
  5. incomprehensively
  6. incomprehensiveness
  7. incompressable
  8. incompressibilities
  9. incompressibility
  10. incompressible
  11. incompressibleness

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