Indescribability

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or characteristic of being indescribable. uncountable

    "Sensorial changes are by no means uncommon, and they are of every kind, description, and indescribability."

  2. 2
    The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. wordnet
  3. 3
    Something which cannot be described. countable

    "The clothed embodied justice that sits in Westminster Hall, with penalties, parchments, tipstaves, is very visible. But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!"

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indescribablenessindescribablenessineffabilityineffabilityundescribabilityundescribability

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"Sensorial changes are by no means uncommon, and they are of every kind, description, and indescribability."

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