Ineffability

Synonyms for "ineffability" (12 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (3)

Related words (6)

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Translations

12 translations across 8 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • неизразимост noun (quality or state of being ineffable)

Catalan

1 entries
  • inefabilitat noun (quality or state of being ineffable)

French

1 entries
  • ineffabilité noun (quality or state of being ineffable)

German

4 entries
  • Unaussprechlichkeit noun (quality or state of being ineffable)
  • Unbeschreiblichkeit noun (quality or state of being ineffable)
  • Unsagbarkeit noun (quality or state of being ineffable)
  • Unsäglichkeit noun (quality or state of being ineffable)

Polish

1 entries
  • niewypowiadalność noun (quality or state of being ineffable)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • inefabilidade noun (quality or state of being ineffable)

Romanian

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  • inefabilitate noun (quality or state of being ineffable)

Spanish

1 entries
  • inefabilidad noun (quality or state of being ineffable)

Sample sentences

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To him, the spirit lodged within Billy, and looking out from his welkin eyes as from windows, that ineffability it was which made the dimple in his dyed cheek, suppled his joints, and dancing in his yellow curls made him preeminently the Handsome Sailor.

Source: wiktionary

But recently, physiological studies of ritual have suggested that the ineffability of intense emotional, transformative states may be due to the dominance of right brain activity.

Source: wiktionary

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