Noun

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 .

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!"

Noun

But how and why are hard to say or even see. There are cases of ununderstanding mediated by the use of special words but this is not apt to be one of them.

Despite tiresome explications ununderstanding may be rife and rampant.

Since the main problem in the default condition of ununderstanding is how to continue, PARRY employs heuristics such as changing the level of the dialogue and asking about the interviewer's intention...