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incomprehension

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[ UK /ɪnkˌɒmpɹɪhˈɛnʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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