comprehension
noun
the act or process of comprehending.
miscomprehension
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a word derived from
comprehension.
Example Sentences
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A comedy of miscomprehension that explodes into sudden tragedy, it is all the sadder for involving no villains, no clash of good and evil, or even of conscious right and wrong.
From Time Magazine Archive
But an opinion such as this is due to miscomprehension of the facts.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
Thackeray's lecture on Swift, which is full of animosity and miscomprehension, is a well-written revelation of Thackeray.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
He confessed that he had made some erroneous predictions; but he said that these mistakes had been entirely due to his own miscomprehension of certain texts or diagrams.
From In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn
Through many years of miscomprehension, I came to know that the life of a devotee of science is inevitably filled with unending struggle.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
