incomprehension

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Like the high-Modernist works of William Faulkner, “Call It Sleep” was initially met with incomprehension; a revival decades later established it as a rightful classic of the Jewish-American experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Farrell, who also narrates in a soft voice, often wears a look of shy incomprehension, as if a beat behind in translating the world around him, a stranger in a strange land.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

Like the peevish alien Roger from American Dad, Sam’s general attitude toward the human world in which he finds himself is equal parts incomprehension and condescension.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2023

Most of its electricity, however, comes from renewables and there is growing incomprehension among the Austrian public at the market system where gas and power prices are closely linked.

From Reuters • Aug. 28, 2022

But in learning that I was being blamed for a crime I had not done, my incomprehension as to my plight only grew.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi