incomprehensiblenessn.
The quality of being incomprehensible: = incomprehensibility n. (in senses 1 and 2).
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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
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
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Incomprehensibilité, Incomprehensibleness.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 288 The incomprehensiblenesse of mans sin.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §72. 317 It implieth Gods incomprehensiblenesse, immutability, and all sufficiency.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. 1 Cor. viii. 2 If they knew God, or any of his Works, they would know their Incomprehensibleness.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §21. 67 He realizes..the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered in itself.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such i. 19 They..recite to me examples of feminine incomprehensibleness as typified in their wives.
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