inapprehensionn.
/ɪnaprɪˈhɛnʃən/ 1. Want of apprehension; failure to apprehend or grasp mentally.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [noun]
unsensibleness?1555
headlesshood1579
senselessness1580
vacuity1593
incomprehension1605
insensibleness1610
unintelligiblenessa1631
insensateness1646
mindlessness1646
inapprehensiveness1652
unapprehensiveness1669
non-intelligencea1674
unperceivingnessa1688
inapprehension1745
inconception1761
brainlessness1832
vacancy1841
uncomprehension1862
1745 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl.: Pt. 2 17 An intire inapprehension of the very Drift and Purpose of it.
a1808 R. Hurd Serm. in Wks. (1811) VI. xxi. 306 It is not envy, but inapprehension, which sets them on work.
1843 E. A. Poe Purloined Let. in Gift 1845 57 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > quality of being unforeseen > [noun] > state of not foreseeing
inapprehension1865
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Oct. 5 He took advantage of their inapprehension and defenceless condition to gratify the worst passions.
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