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ununderstanding en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + understanding.

Meanings

  1. Not understanding.
    • With an ununderstanding wife and a physically handicapped daughter, he got on philosophically. 1991, P. Rajeswar Rao, The Great Indian patriots, Volume 2:
    • ...more sympathy with art than the ununderstanding, conceited and vulgar Archbishop of Salzburg... 1933, Richard Specht, Beethoven as he lived:

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Deriveds

ununderstandingly

ununderstanding en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + understanding.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Failure to understand; incomprehension.
    • Despite tiresome explications ununderstanding may be rife and rampant. 1973, Glenn Pearce, Patrick Maynard, Conceptual change:
    • 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... 1975, Kenneth Mark Colby, Artificial paranoia; a computer simulation of paranoid processes:
    • 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. 1972, Paul Ziff, Understanding understanding: