Incomprehensibility

Synonyms for "incomprehensibility" (9 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (3)

Related words (4)

Choosing the right synonym

  • Closest matches in this entry: ambiguity, eternity, forever, illegibility, immensity.
  • Sentence evidence is available for incomprehensibility, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
  • Ranking signals come from derived_reverse.

Synonym selection checklist

  • Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
  • Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
  • Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "incomprehensibility".
  • Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.

When not to replace "incomprehensibility"

Keep "incomprehensibility" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.

If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.

Replacement workflow

1. Preserve meaning

Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "incomprehensibility" intact in the sentence you are editing.

2. Tune tone

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3. Re-read context

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Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.

Final fit check

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If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "incomprehensibility" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.

Related word relations

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Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

The king here alludes, as he does in various other passages, to the ancient Academicians, or Sceptics, who taught the uncertainty and incomprehensibility of truth.

Source: wiktionary

The first principle of natural religion contains innumerable — I had almost said — impossibilities. hat is God? is^([sic]) involved in the most absoluteincomprehensibility. And yet we must either admit the principle, or embrace ten thousand absurdities and impossibilities.

Source: wiktionary

Why he had done it, what could have provoked him to such a breach of hospitality, and so suddenly turned all his partial regard for their daughter into actual ill-will, was a matter which they were at least as far from divining as Catherine herself : but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that “it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man,” grew enough for all their indig- nation and wonder; though Sarah, indeed, still indulged in the sweets of incomprehensibility, exclaiming and conjecturing with youthful ardour — “My dear, you give yourself a great deal of needless trouble,” said her mother at last; “depend upon it, it is something not at all worth under' standing.”

Source: wiktionary

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Common questions

What are the closest synonyms for "incomprehensibility"?

Closest matches include ambiguity, eternity, forever, illegibility, immensity.

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