inapprehension

Etymology

From in- + apprehension.

inapprehension means failure to notice; failure to be aware of; lack of apprehension. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

Failure to notice; failure to be aware of; lack of apprehension.“These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.”