lack of understanding

Synonyms

ignorance misunderstanding blindness incomprehension misapprehension misreading blankness chilliness slow-wittedness misconstruing

Antonyms

ken commerce harmonics knowledge septet traffic
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Examples

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. Terry Pratchett

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. Edward James Olmos

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. Arthur Young

Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce) English Proverb

Words in the phrase

lack of understanding

Close letter words and terms

lack of thrift lack of trauma lack of trust lack of unity lack of use lack of vanity