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Incomprehensibility

noun
1.
The quality of being incomprehensible.





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"Incomprehensibility" Quotes from Famous Books



... clearly seen, but confusedly and mysteriously. That which is nearness for the bank, is distance for its details; and however near it may be, the greater part of those details are still a beautiful incomprehensibility.[29] ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin
... help us, how little do we know about anything!—a scene like that might impress itself somehow upon the hidden heart of nature. I do not pretend to know how, but the repetition had struck me at the time as, in its terrible strangeness and incomprehensibility, almost mechanical,—as if the unseen actor could not exceed or vary, but was bound to re-enact the whole. One thing that struck me, however, greatly, was the likeness between the old minister and my boy in the ...
— The Open Door, and the Portrait. - Stories of the Seen and the Unseen. • Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant


Words linked to "Incomprehensibility" :   obscureness, opaqueness, impenetrableness, opacity, inscrutability, noise, comprehensibility, unclearness, incomprehensible, reconditeness, quality, impenetrability, illegibility, unintelligibility, abstruseness, obscurity


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