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Inscrutability

noun
1.
The quality of being impossible to investigate.





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"Inscrutability" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a fire made in the yard. Always when Jack rode out to meet Mary at the foot of the range, Firio would follow; and always he had his rifle. For it was part of Jack's seeming inconsistency, emphasizing his inscrutability, that he would never wear his revolver. It hung beside Pete's on the wall of the living-room as a second relic. Far from being a quarrel-maker, he was peaceful to ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... once with his back to the light. She felt that this did not make much difference. She knew exactly how he was looking—cold, self-contained, implacable as granite. She had seldom seen him look otherwise. His face was a perpetual mask to her. It was this very inscrutability of his that had first waked in her the desire to see him ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell


Words linked to "Inscrutability" :   incomprehensibility, inscrutable


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