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单词 inconceivability
释义 inconceivability|ɪnkənsiːvəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next: see -ity.]
The quality or condition of being inconceivable; inconceivableness.
1847–8H. Miller First Impr. xvii. (1857) 302 Exactly the same degree of inconceivability attaches to ‘the years of the Eternal’.1865Mill Exam. Hamilton iv. (1872) 63 The inconceivability and consequent unknowability of the Unconditioned.1882Macm. Mag. XLV. 405 The inconceivability of a popular revolution [in Russia].
b. An instance of this; something that is inconceivable.
1843Mill Logic iii. v. §9 (1856) I. 389 The action of mind upon matter..has appeared to some thinkers to be itself the grand inconceivability.1863E. V. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 219 The three points where Mr. Spencer's theory falls foul of inconceivabilities.1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 393 He has had to assume an inexplicability, an inconceivability, a paradox, as nevertheless a fact.
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