noncomprehending

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English

Etymology

From non- +‎ comprehending.

Adjective

noncomprehending (not comparable)

  1. uncomprehending
    • 1975 December 20, Rudy Kikel, “The Closed Closet Policy and the Poetry of Paul Monette”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 9:
      The stratagem of resorting to stealthiness in a non-comprehending, hostile environment is surely not peculiar to the homosexual sensibility, but it is an aspect of that sensibility.
    • 1990, Catherine H Zuckert, Natural right and the American imagination: political philosophy in novel form:
      He marries Priscilla; but her noncomprehending adoration adds to his suffering and self-deprecation rather than alleviating it []