comprehender
nounEtymology From comprehend + -er.
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One who comprehends.
- Less-skilled comprehenders do not know when it is appropriate to draw inferences.2005, Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme, The Science of Reading: A Handbook, page 232:
- This mental representation provides the comprehender with a general plan according to which he can organize, interrelate and memorize the incoming information.1989, Hans-Wilhelm Dechert, Manfred Raupach, Interlingual Processes, page 138:
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- There is no seer beside him, no hearer beside him, no comprehender beside him, no knower beside him.1908, Paul Deussen, The Philosophy of the Upanishads, page 169:
- Synonyms
- comprehensor
- Derived terms
- noncomprehender