Incomprehensibility
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The condition of being incomprehensible. uncountable
"We should be quite willing to desist from the demand of a dogmatical answer to our questions, if we understood beforehand that, be the answer what it may, it would only serve to increase our ignorance, to throw us from one incomprehensibility into another, from one obscurity into another still greater, and perhaps lead us into irreconcilable contradictions."
- 2 the quality of being incomprehensible wordnet
- 3 Something that cannot be understood. countable
"That left Bradly as bemused as ever, for it posed another incomprehensibility: Why had Podson walked here?"
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More examples"We should be quite willing to desist from the demand of a dogmatical answer to our questions, if we understood beforehand that, be the answer what it may, it would only serve to increase our ignorance, to throw us from one incomprehensibility into another, from one obscurity into another still greater, and perhaps lead us into irreconcilable contradictions."
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