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Incomprehension

noun
1.
An inability to understand.





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"Incomprehension" Quotes from Famous Books



... who they are." She shrugged with incomprehension and looked for a soft spot in the sand to sit down. "They live in the desert. They go around in caroj. They stink. They have many nice things. One of them gave me my best thing. If I show it to you, ...
— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey
... enchanted garden Madame Nilsson, in white cashmere slashed with pale blue satin, a reticule dangling from a blue girdle, and large yellow braids carefully disposed on each side of her muslin chemisette, listened with downcast eyes to M. Capoul's impassioned wooing, and affected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever, by word or glance, he persuasively indicated the ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton


Words linked to "Incomprehension" :   inability, comprehension


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