[
UK
/ɪnkˌɒmpɹɪhˈɛnʃən/
]
NOUN
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an inability to understand
his incomprehension of the consequences
How To Use incomprehension In A Sentence
- The audience reacted with surprise and incomprehension.
- Explanations are not this film's concern - it strives instead to give shape to our incomprehension.
- In one scene we see Vicki's complete incomprehension of the gangster talk that surrounds her.
- She takes my incomprehension to signify that we'll never really understand each other and are thus, not each other's Ones.
- Startled by the torchlight, their shallow caprine eyes gazed back in fear and incomprehension at the source.
- Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will.
- After a few moments of complete incomprehension, Em broke out of her daze and blinked up at her fellow instrumentalists.
- This time he certainly saw blank incomprehension mixed with a liberal dollop of incredulity.
- When the appeal is turned down he looks at the umpire the way a teenager looks at his father when told he cannot have £50 for a night out: incomprehension.
- Knowledge comes of shared experience while ignorance and incomprehension of the other can be the consequences of time unshared.