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comprehension definition

com·pre·hen·sion (-hen′s̸hen)

noun

  1. the fact of including or comprising; inclusiveness
    1. the act of grasping with the mind
    2. understanding or knowledge that results from this
  3. the capacity for understanding ideas, facts, etc.

Etymology: ME comprehensioun < L comprehensio < comprehensus, pp. of comprehendere: see comprehend

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comprehension Synonyms

comprehension

n.

  1. Capacity to understand

    understanding, perception, cognizance, grasp; see awareness, judgment 1, knowledge 1.

  2. An including

    incorporation, circumscription, embodiment; see inclusion.


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comprehension Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • defy: Part 1 Geological evidence points to an cataclysmic event that almost defies comprehension.

Adjective modifier

  • verbal: Their mean score on a standardized test of verbal comprehension put them at the 10th percentile ( i.e.

Modifies a noun

  • axiom: The most general comprehension axiom of Z is the axiom of Separation.

Noun used with modifier

  • listening: There was only one listening comprehension test in the second semester.
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comprehension quotes

Sociology is a new science concerning itself not with esoteric matters outside the comprehension of the layman, as the older sciences do, but with the ordinary affairs of ordinary people. This seems to engender in those who write about it a feeling that the lack of anyabstruseness in their subject matter demands a compensatoryabstruseness in their language. 365

-Gowers, Sir Ernest Arthur

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

-Holmes,John Clellon

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