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单词 inconceivability
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inconceivabilityn.

/ɪnkənsiːvəˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: < inconceivable adj.: see -ity suffix.
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.
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