lack of understanding

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understanding
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.dəˈstæn.dɪŋ/ us /ˌʌn.dɚˈstæn.dɪŋ/
An understanding person who has the ability to know how other people are feeling, and can forgive them if they do ...
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Examples of lack of understanding

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Nonetheless, the lackofunderstanding and mistrust of government prevented the project from moving ahead.
If that is the case, lackofunderstanding of the nature of the objects might account for discrepancies in naming them.
This lackofunderstanding may be a form of psychological denial.
However, an even greater proportion of forgetting among young children can be explained by lackofunderstanding.
Nonetheless, the lackofunderstanding of the source of the variability remains troubling.
His lackofunderstanding of the notion of frame of reference goes hand in hand with his claims to priority.
That to me represents lackofunderstanding of the very special knowledge that is brought to bear.
Another general feature of the paper is to blame everything on a lackofunderstanding and leadership.
In addition, there is a lackofunderstanding of these students' literacy experiences beyond the classroom.
The investigations remain on the level of the hypothesis or the suspicion, which asserts itself primarily as a lackofunderstanding.
This is due in part to a lackofunderstanding of the intricacies inherent in the definitions.
Consumers were viewed as not understanding the complexity of genetic engineering, and because of this lackofunderstanding, tended to reject the technology.
Together with the general assumption of monolingualism in the legal system comes a frequent lackofunderstanding of what it means to be bilingual.
There was a widespread belief that there was a general lackofunderstanding and little interest in the problems of the farming population.
Progress in this area has been hampered by lackofunderstanding of the basic mechanisms responsible for preterm labour.
These ideas indicate a lackofunderstanding of the symbolic function of letters in words.
Such an idea, he argues, is due to a lackofunderstanding of the nature of a philosophical problem.
Personal experience highlighted concerns regarding the lackofunderstanding of preceptorship.
One possible source for children's problems with each might be a lackofunderstanding of the semantics of each.
The operation is indeed still regarded with considerable distrust, lackofunderstanding, and as taboo.
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