inapprehension
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
in- + apprehension
Noun[edit]
inapprehension (uncountable)
- (rare) Failure to notice; failure to be aware of; lack of apprehension.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter:
- These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.
- 1909, Raphael Sabatini, St Martin's Summer, published 2008, →ISBN, page 29:
- He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.
- 1966, Paul J. Sharits, “Red, Blue, Godard”, in Film Quarterly, volume 19, number 4, page 27:
- Camile is naturally disgusted with Paul but he doesn't seem to apprehend her reason—it is this inapprehension of the obvious which creates the tension.
References[edit]
- “inapprehension”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.