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incomprehension

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Snow declared that a gulf of mutual incomprehension divided literary intellectuals and scientists.

An excellent argument against Roman Catholicism I would say, and Greene might well stare in blank incomprehension at my pages.

There were those who lagged behind out of incomprehension, political calculation, or timidity.

The rest of the world has reacted to the idea of such a child with horror and incomprehension.

The man's face wore a sudden crafty look of incomprehension.

I dare say Im unjust, but Im living in another world, and this shocks me—the incomprehension of it all!

Trask's efforts to explain the political and social structure of the Sword-Worlds met the same incomprehension from Bentrik.

But our incomprehension is due even more to our ignorance of the strange and devious workings of the German mind.

It did not occur to him to go on acting, to pretend astonishment or incomprehension.

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On this page you'll find 221 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to incomprehension, such as: illiteracy, nescience, benightedness, darkness, lack of education, and sciolism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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