Misunderstanding vs Incomprehension - What's the difference?
misunderstanding | incomprehension |
A mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception.
A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.
Want or lack of comprehension or understanding; inability to understand.
* 1873 , , A Pair of Blue Eyes
* 1901 , , The Lord of the Sea
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* 1995 , Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu",
As nouns the difference between misunderstanding and incomprehension
is that misunderstanding is a mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception while incomprehension is incomprehension.As a verb misunderstanding
is .misunderstanding
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(head)incomprehension
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(-)- Stephen blushed; and his father looked from one to the other in a state of utter incomprehension .
- (...) and the wearied worker, borne at evening through crowded undergrounds, might read his name with a listless incomprehension .
- Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension .
- The aide gave the old men in Ward Two their medicine, and they joked with her. Shevek watched with dull incomprehension .
Wired Magazine
- As a guest lecturer in Nelson's class, Miller ran through his ideas for a Xanadu-like software system. Afterward, he was approached by one of the students, Stuart Greene. Miller asked Greene what the reaction to his ideas had been. Not so good, Greene informed him. As always, the class had listened in dumb incomprehension . They seldom understood what Nelson was talking about, and when Miller launched into a similar enthusiastic tirade, their response, Greene laughed, was "Oh, no, we can't believe there's another one!"