ununderstanding

English

Etymology

un- +‎ understanding

Noun

ununderstanding (uncountable)

1. Failure to understand; incomprehension.
   • 1972, Paul Ziff, Understanding understanding:

     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.

   • 1973, Glenn Pearce, Patrick Maynard, Conceptual change:

     Despite tiresome explications ununderstanding may be rife and rampant.

   • 1975, Kenneth Mark Colby, Artificial paranoia; a computer simulation of paranoid processes:

     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...

Adjective

ununderstanding (comparative more ununderstanding, superlative most ununderstanding)

1. Not understanding.
   • 1933, Richard Specht, Beethoven as he lived:

     ...more sympathy with art than the ununderstanding, conceited and vulgar Archbishop of Salzburg...

   • 1991, P. Rajeswar Rao, The Great Indian patriots, Volume 2:

     With an ununderstanding wife and a physically handicapped daughter, he got on philosophically.