Un-understandableness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being ununderstandable. uncountable

    "The following passage of the opium-eater’s own, evidently intended to be very fine, possesses as much of what Jeremy Bentham calls un-understandableness, as any I have for some time met, even from the Kantean school."

Example

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"The following passage of the opium-eater’s own, evidently intended to be very fine, possesses as much of what Jeremy Bentham calls un-understandableness, as any I have for some time met, even from the Kantean school."

Etymology

From un-understandable + -ness.

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