Definition for Comprehension:

• The act or power of comprehending; understanding.

Synonyms for Comprehension:

• n.

  •
  • clarity,
  • vision,
  • brilliance,
  • common sense,
  • awareness.
  •
  • final,
  • circumscription,
  • the boards,
  • incorporation.
  •
  • hold.
  •ability (noun)
  • re-sourcefulness,
  • under standing,
  • under standings,
  • re-sourcefulnesses,
  • re sourcefulnesses,
  • under-standing,
  • re sourcefulness,
  • under-standings.
  •acumen (noun)
  • dis-criminations,
  • dis crimination,
  • dis criminations,
  • in tuition,
  • in-tuitions,
  • in tuitions,
  • dis-crimination,
  • good tastes,
  • smartnesses,
  • in-tuition.
  •appreciation (noun)
  • re gards,
  • re cognitions,
  • aesthetic senses,
  • re spect,
  • re-gard,
  • re-cognition,
  • responsivenessses,
  • re spects,
  • high regards,
  • re-spects,
  • re-spect,
  • re cognition.
  •awareness (noun)
  • sentiences,
  • in-formation,
  • alivenesses,
  • in-formations,
  • bodhis,
  • in formations.
  •cognition (noun)
  • comprehension.
  •comprehension (noun)
  • inclusion.
  •conception (noun)
  • communings,
  • ex-planations,
  • deliberatings,
  • envisagings,
  • cogitatings,
  • mental grasps,
  • ex planations,
  • ex-positions,
  • meditatings,
  • ex-position,
  • de-liberating,
  • re presentations,
  • re-presentations,
  • philosophizings,
  • considerings,
  • de-sign,
  • speculatings,
  • concentratings,
  • fancyings,
  • re presentation,
  • de-signs,
  • de signs,
  • de liberating,
  • ex planation,
  • de sign.
  •decipherment (noun)
  • de codings,
  • de-coding,
  • de-codings,
  • ex-plications,
  • de coding,
  • ex plication,
  • decryptions,
  • ex-plication.
  •embodiment (noun)
  • in carnation,
  • in corporation,
  • ex-ample,
  • in-carnations,
  • reifications,
  • in-corporations,
  • prosopopoeias,
  • in-corporation,
  • in-carnation,
  • in carnations,
  • in corporations,
  • encompassments,
  • ex ample.
  •empathy (noun)
  • cottoning tos,
  • being same wavelength,
  • community interest,
  • hitting it offs,
  • picking up ons,
  • hitting offs,
  • community interests,
  • good vibration,
  • picking upon,
  • picking ons.
  •enlightenment (noun)
  • open mindedness,
  • broadmindednesses,
  • broad mindedness,
  • openmindedness,
  • broad mindednesses,
  • broad-mindednesses.
  •grip (noun)
  • possession.
  •reason (noun)
  • rationalism,
  • reasonableness,
  • sens,
  • generalizations,
  • marbles,
  • sensibleness,
  • generalization,
  • sound mind.
  •sagacity (noun)
  • perceptiveness,
  • good judgment,
  • levelheadedness.
  •sanity (noun)
  • right mind,
  • clear mind,
  • judiciousness,
  • healthy mind,
  • saneness,
  • Normalities.
  •scholarship (noun)
  • learnednesses.
  •taste (noun)
  • druthers,
  • Palates.
  •understanding (noun)
  • double take,
  • discernment,
  • apperception,
  • perception,
  • sense,
  • realization,
  • slow take,
  • prehension,
  • capacity,
  • Aha,
  • take,
  • cognizance.
  •wisdom (noun)
  • pansophies.
  •wit/wits (noun)
  • astucities.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • viva,
  • sat,
  • GMAT,
  • Viva voce,
  • the ACT,
  • makeup,
  • LSAT,
  • cloze test,
  • bar exam,
  • pop quiz,
  • international baccalaureate,
  • MCAT,
  • Ged,
  • eleven-plus,
  • SATS,
  • the GRE,
  • HSC.
  •
  • confusion,
  • baccalaureate,
  • AP,
  • Familiarity.
  •
  • higher,
  • retake,
  • oral.
  •
  • board.

Paraphrases for Comprehension:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    comprehensibility, compassion, sensitivity, realization, empathy, concept.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    understanding, understandings, appreciation, understand.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    perception, understanding, grasp, compression, sympathy, indulgence, intelligibility, incomprehensible, realisation, recognition, comprehensiveness, conception, misunderstanding, forbearance, appreciation, literacy, belief, understand.
  • Verb, past tense
    understanding.

Antonyms for Comprehension:

• n.

  • cognition
    incomprehension.
  • understanding
    misinterpretation, inability, misunderstanding, mistake.
  • Other antonyms:
    inexperience, Misperception, ignorance, unfamiliarity, illiteracy, misconception, rudeness.

Comprehension Sentence Examples:

• And with that comprehension came the conviction, too, that David had succeeded.

• Con, it's where she comes in with fear and trembling - but with an awful comprehension.

Hyponym for Comprehension:

• n.

  • cognition
    discernment, apprehension, understanding, savvy.
  • linkdef
    involvement.