单词 | incomprehensibility |
释义 | incomprehensibilityn. 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. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1598 |
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