单词 | inconceivability |
释义 | inconceivabilityn. a. The quality or condition of being inconceivable; inconceivableness. 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 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xvii. 335 Exactly the same degree of inconceivability attaches to ‘the years of the Eternal’. 1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. (1872) iv. 63 The inconceivability and consequent unknowability of the Unconditioned. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 45 405 The inconceivability of a popular revolution [in Russia]. b. An instance of this; something that is inconceivable. 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 1851 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 3) I. iii. v. §9 368 The action of mind upon matter..has appeared to some thinkers to be itself the grand inconceivability. 1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 219 The three points where Mr. Spencer's theory falls foul of inconceivabilities. 1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 393 He has had to assume an inexplicability, an inconceivability, a paradox, as nevertheless a fact. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1847 |
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