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inapprehension|ɪnæprɪˈhɛnʃən|
[in-3.]
1. Want of apprehension; failure to apprehend or grasp mentally.
1744Warburton Wks. (1811) XI. 362 An intire inapprehension of the very drift and purpose of it. a1808Hurd Serm. Wks. 1811 VI. xxi. 306 It is not envy, but inapprehension, which sets them on work. 1843Poe Purloined Letter Wks. 1864 I. 277 The moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.
2. Absence of apprehension of danger. rare.
1865Pall Mall G. 2 Oct. 5 He took advantage of their inapprehension and defenceless condition to gratify the worst passions. |