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ununderstanding

ununderstanding noun: failure to understand; incomprehension.

Noun

ununderstanding (uncountable)

  1. Failure to understand; incomprehension.
    • But how and why are hard to say or even see. There are cases of ununderstanding mediated by the use of special words but this is not apt to be one of them.1972, Paul Ziff, Understanding understanding
    • Despite tiresome explications ununderstanding may be rife and rampant.1973, Glenn Pearce, Patrick Maynard, Conceptual change

Adjective

ununderstanding (comparative more ununderstanding, superlative most ununderstanding)

  1. Not understanding.
    • ...more sympathy with art than the ununderstanding, conceited and vulgar Archbishop of Salzburg...1933, Richard Specht, Beethoven as he lived
    • With an ununderstanding wife and a physically handicapped daughter, he got on philosophically.1991, P. Rajeswar Rao, The Great Indian patriots, Volume 2

Forms of ununderstanding

comparativemore ununderstanding
superlativemost ununderstanding

Origin of ununderstanding

From un- + understanding.

Words formed from ununderstanding

Questions about ununderstanding

What does ununderstanding mean?
Ununderstanding means failure to understand; incomprehension.
What part of speech is ununderstanding?
Ununderstanding can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near ununderstanding in the dictionary

  1. ununctuous
  2. ununderstandability
  3. ununderstandable
  4. ununderstandableness
  5. ununderstandably
  6. ununderstanding
  7. ununderstandingly
  8. ununderstood
  9. unundoable
  10. unundulating
  11. ununennium

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