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

Like the peevish alien Roger from American Dad, Sam’s general attitude toward the human world in which he finds himself is equal parts incomprehension and condescension.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2023

That kind of simplification or incomprehension, he says, can be fatal.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022

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

Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding