Definition of Comprehension

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Comprehension

The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.

That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.

The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.

The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.

A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

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Comprehension Quotations

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Rose Kennedy

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Aleister Crowley

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
Karl Jaspers

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
Joan Miro

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Adolf Hitler

Human life is beyond comprehension.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Paul Getty

Comprehension Translations

comprehension in Italian is comprensione

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