Synonyms for Comprehension
ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn ʃəncom·pre·hen·sion

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1. comprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   understanding

2. comprehensionnoun

   thorough understanding

   Synonyms:
   understanding

3. comprehensionnoun

   The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.

   Synonyms:
   understanding

4. comprehensionnoun

   a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages

   Synonyms:
   understanding

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1. comprehension

   Knowledge is all that the mind knows, from whatever source derived or obtained, or by whatever process; the aggregate of facts, truths, or principles acquired or retained by the mind, including alike the intuitions native to the mind and all that has been learned respecting phenomena, causes, laws, principles, literature, etc. There is a tendency to regard knowledge as accurate and systematic, and to a certain degree complete. Information is knowledge of fact, real or supposed, derived from persons, books, or observation, and is regarded as casual and haphazard. We say of a studious man that he has a great store of knowledge, or of an intelligent man of the world, that he has a fund of varied information. Lore is used only in poetic or elevated style, for accumulated knowledge, as of a people or age, or in a more limited sense for learning or erudition. We speak of perception of external objects, apprehension of intellectual truth. Simple perception gives a limited knowledge of external objects, merely as such; the cognition of the same objects is a knowledge of them in some relation; cognizance is the formal or official recognition of something as an object of knowledge; we take cognizance of it. Intuition is primary knowledge antecedent to all teaching or reasoning, experience is knowledge that has entered directly into one's own life; as, a child's experience that fire will burn. Learning is much higher than information, being preeminently wide and systematic knowledge, the result of long, assiduous study; erudition is recondite learning secured only by extraordinary industry, opportunity, and ability. Compare ACQUAINTANCE; EDUCATION; SCIENCE; WISDOM.

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, apprehension, cognition, cognizance, erudition, experience, information, intelligence, intuition, knowledge, learning, light, lore, perception, recognition, scholarship, science, wisdom

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiteracy, inexperience, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, rudeness, unfamiliarity

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1. comprehension

   Synonyms:
   understanding, conception, capacity, perception, apprehension

   Antonyms:
   misunderstanding, misconception

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1. comprehensionnoun

   an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)

   "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"

   Synonyms:
   inclusion

   Antonyms:
   incomprehension

2. inclusion, comprehensionnoun

   the relation of comprising something

   "he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work"

   Synonyms:
   cellular inclusion, comprehension, inclusion, inclusion body

   Antonyms:
   incomprehension

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1. • Understanding

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1. comprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   perception, apprehension, discernment, knowledge

2. comprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   understanding, intelligence, intellect, mind, reason, mental capacity

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1. comprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   understanding, apprehension

   Antonyms:
   incomprehension, inapprehension

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1. List of paraphrases for "comprehension":

   understanding

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1. comprehension

   Synonyms:
   Apperception Note: Comprehension is widely preferred, entry is included for cross-reference purposes
   

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How to use Comprehension in a sentence?

1. Adrian LeBaron:

   This is so beyond comprehension, we're living like we're in Afghanistan, 100 miles from the U.S. border.

2. Barbara King:

   Koko shows definite comprehension of spoken English.

3. Aleister Crowley:

   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.

4. Johann von Goethe:

   Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

5. Jastrowski Mano:

   Working memory is often conceptualized as being a 'mental workbench' that allows a person to keep information in mind long enough for reasoning and comprehension to occur, it is involved in helping the brain shift information from short-term memory to long-term memory.