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单词 incomprehensibility
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incomprehensibilityn.

/ɪnkɒmprɪhɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: < incomprehensible adj.: see -ity suffix: compare French incompréhensibilité (Montaigne, 16th cent.).
The quality or state of being incomprehensible; an instance of this.
1.
a. Incapability of being comprised or circumscribed within limits; boundlessness, infinitude.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun]
endlessness1340
everbleving1340
infinityc1374
everlastingnessa1382
immensityc1450
infiniteness1534
infinition?1605
illimitation1610
immenseness1610
incomprehensibleness1611
incircumscriptibleness1615
boundlessnessa1619
indefinity1623
unlimitedness1631
unboundedness1640
infinitude1641
incomprehensibility1650
incircumscription1651
ever-beingness1674
extendlessnessa1676
indefinitudea1676
uncircumscribedness1679
interminability1681
interminableness1682
illimitedness1703
limitlessness1839
illimitability1841
illimitableness1845
uncircumscription1852
unconditionedness1854
unbeginningness1862
beginninglessness1865
ever-duringness1868
1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature 60 This it is which all men conceive by the name of God, implying eternity, incomprehensibility, and omnipotency.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. v. 302 The Divine nature, and..the same real infinity and incomprehensibility that essentially belongs to it.
1724 D. Waterland Crit. Hist. Athanasian Creed 139.
1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1875) i. 29 When we confess the omnipresence and incomprehensibility of God.
b. That which is incapable of limitation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun] > infinity or that which is infinite
infinity1377
infinite1587
infinitive1595
incomprehensibility1610
immensitya1631
infinitude1667
infinitum1682
unmeasured1812
endlessness1820
unconditioned1829
illimitable1884
out and out1890
boundless1909
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xviii. 459 His [i.e. God's] wisdome..can comprehend, all incomprehensibility, by his incomprehensible comprehension.
2.
a. Incapability of being grasped by the mind; inconceivableness, unintelligibility.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun]
obscuritya1522
incomprehensibility1598
entangledness1611
unconceivableness1611
unsearchableness1611
indiscernibleness1649
inscrutability1654
undiscoverableness1656
unscrutableness1657
unimaginableness1659
inconceivableness1661
unintelligibility1661
imperscrutableness1664
unknowableness1664
unintelligibleness1678
unfathomableness1690
inscrutableness1727
incognoscibility1824
uncognoscibility1827
unconjecturability1827
impenetrability1847
inconceivability1847
intangibility1847
untraceableness1856
incognizabilityc1860
incomprehensibleness1862
unknowability1863
unthinkability1865
elusiveness1873
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Incomprehensibilità, incomprehensibilitie.
1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 267 The constant, universal sense of all Antiquity Unanimously confessing an Incomprehensibility in many of the Articles of the Christian Faith.
1734 G. Berkeley Analyst §49 This obscurity and incomprehensibility of your metaphysics.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxvi. 136 The incomprehensibility of the fact of consciousness.
b. Something inconceivable or unintelligible.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of
lock1563
incomprehensibility1651
inscrutables1665
incomprehensible1678
inconceivable1706
I know not what1711
unknowable1725
unsearchable1725
indefinable1810
a sealed book1814
unknowable1816
unintelligible1838
inconceivability1851
imponderable1855
inscrutablenessa1864
unfathomability1867
unthinkable1871
closed book1913
intangible1914
imponderabilia1925
generation gap1962
1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. F6v This ariseth..from some incomprehensibilitie that is met with.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 178 On the score of any incomprehensibilities and seeming contradictions that might be objected to it.
1852 T. De Quincey in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 8 276/2 Such a result..would have been an impossibility, and not only so but also an incomprehensibility.
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