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comprehension
[ kom-pri-hen-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or process of comprehending.
- the state of being comprehended.
- perception or understanding:
His comprehension of physics is amazing for a young student.
- capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; power to grasp ideas; ability to know.
- Logic. the connotation of a term.
comprehension
/ ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən /
noun
- the act or capacity of understanding
- the state of including or comprising something; comprehensiveness
- education an exercise consisting of a previously unseen passage of text with related questions, designed to test a student's understanding esp of a foreign language
- obsolete.logic the attributes implied by a given concept or term; connotation
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Other Words From
- miscom·pre·hension noun
- noncom·pre·hension noun
- precom·pre·hension noun
- super·compre·hension noun
- uncom·pre·hension noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of comprehension1
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Example Sentences
It was a small step in learning to stick to my guns, but a leap in my comprehension of phonetics.
To be clear, what Peterson (allegedly) did is abhorrent and almost beyond comprehension.
To do so in a Salvadoran prison defies comprehension and inspires respect for their grit and determination.
Nothing defeats my powers of comprehension like the deliberate harm of a child.
This is nostalgia as a recording exercise rather than a lesson in empathy or comprehension.
She has embodied in her work a modern comprehension of old legends.
It is beyond the comprehension of any man not blinded by superstition, not warped by prejudice and old-time convention.
This is given in the next few pages, and it will be found to be easy of comprehension and interesting to a surprising degree.
The mysterious letter was handed round our circle in succession, and seemed equally beyond comprehension to us all.
To Madame Ratignolle he said the music dispensed at her soirees was too "heavy," too far beyond his untrained comprehension.
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