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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incomprehension
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He stared at her with annoyed incomprehension.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each was met with polite incomprehension.
▪ I am feeling... perplexity; incomprehension.
▪ The first reaction is incomprehension, the second indecision.
▪ They in turn responded with incomprehension and then with anger.
▪ This was a fertile source of incomprehension between him and Ellen.
▪ Tunnel vision and mutual incomprehension were natural reactions.
▪ Yet what saves the day is not negotiation but incomprehension.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incomprehension

Incomprehension \In*com`pre*hen"sion\, n. Lack of comprehension or understanding. ``These mazes and incomprehensions.''
--Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incomprehension

c.1600, from in- (1) "not" + comprehension.

Wiktionary
incomprehension

n. Want or lack of comprehension or understanding; inability to understand.

WordNet
incomprehension

n. an inability to understand; "his incomprehension of the consequences" [ant: comprehension]

Usage examples of "incomprehension".

Professor Bender has spoken English whenever he could in deference to my incomprehension of German, but at crucial moments the talk lapsed into the unfamiliar language.

No such assistance materialised, and she gazed about her in astonished incomprehension, until she realised that the cheap brown cape, chosen to camouflage her Exalted status, had served too well.

Seeing her look of incomprehension, Roges said, Put another way, something about as long as a four-story building is tall, and as thick through as the Bridgers House living room.

He looked up at Diota, when the girl presented her, with complete incomprehension, but he comprehended all too well when he looked at the seal that fastened the parchment.

His smoke-grimed face wrinkled with incomprehension, so I added, ``In the beech grove.

The instant he realized she would still not be dissuaded, even if it meant ending their affair, he had been caught up in a hideous spiral of pain and anger and incomprehension and doubt.

Laszlo's plump eyes shuttered open, focused in random incomprehension upon a brightening verticality, a hardness of a thingness he was quite unable, for several entertainingly disoriented moments, to recognize as the blunt chrome shaft of a simple door lock.

The illusion seemed to have, in fact, succeeded - Karsa had been bludgeoned into a harmless ox, devoid of any glimmer of intelligence in his dull eyes, his endless, ghastly smile evincing permanent incomprehension.

The shocked expression on their faces ranged from frozen incomprehension to stunned astonishment at seeing the huge car with the artistically flowing lines tearing across the Mall between the National Air & Space Museum and the National Gallery of Art.

It was difficult for Jude to grasp the notion of prayer as a solid thing—a kind of matter to be gathered, analyzed, and sluiced away—but she knew her incomprehension was a consequence of living in a world out of love with transformation.

But Turpin, pouring tiny goblets of Tia Maria, stared in apparently genuine incomprehension.