inapprehension
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said."
- "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."
Etymology
From in- + apprehension.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in