incomprehension

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Puthli’s life embodies pop music in the post-colonial world, with all its promise and incomprehension.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024

In theory, the line between sanity and insanity, knowledge of the consequences of one’s choices and incomprehension of the line between cause and effect, could be grounds for a rich and nuanced philosophical discussion.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2023

Pádraic's distress and incomprehension around Colm's rejection allows McDonagh to explore not only the grief experienced when adult friends decouple, but also vicariously the collapse of childhood friendships or family estrangements.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2023

Most of its electricity, however, comes from renewables and there is growing incomprehension among the Austrian public at the market system where gas and power prices are closely linked.

From Reuters • Aug. 28, 2022

Schott’s complete incomprehension suggests that it would have been difficult for Bodin to persuade other scholars that his views made sense.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton