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incomprehensiveness en · NOUN

Etymology

From incomprehensive + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being incomprehensive.
    • To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century." 1999 December 27, Frederic Golden, “Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Person of the century”, in CNN: