Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being incomprehensive.
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- noun The condition of being
incomprehensive
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Examples
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Another comrade, during the inaugural speech -- at the time, the representative of the Cuban side spoke of incomprehensiveness, of "a burden on science," and many more things.
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It is not a mere ignorance or incomprehensiveness of the notions of truth that is intended, but a stubborn resistance of light and conviction.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Strange, that they will complacently and pridefully bind up whatever vice or folly there is in them, whatever arrogance, petulance, or blind incomprehensiveness, into one bitter bundle of consecrated myrrh.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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Strange, that they will complacently and pridefully bind up whatever vice or folly there is in them, whatever arrogance, petulance, or blind incomprehensiveness, into one bitter bundle of consecrated myrrh.
Sesame and Lilies. Lecture II.-Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens 1909
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This beautiful, wicked, awful sea - a thinking, feeling being is already terrifying in its profound incomprehensiveness.
The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896
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