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单词 imponderabilia
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imponderabilian.

/ɪmˌpɒndərəˈbɪlɪə/
Etymology: neuter plural of modern Latin imponderābilis, things that cannot be weighed.
With plural agreement. Imponderables, imponderable factors.
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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
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > immaterial things
spiritc1384
immaterial1608
incorporeal1628
imponderabilia1925
1925 W. J. Locke Great Pandolfo xxiv. 300 A man beaten not by Fortune, not by the hostility of material influences, but by spiritual imponderabilia almost on the borderland of sanity and unreason.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 283/2 The imponderabilia that constitute ‘Toryism’.
1938 E. Pound Let. 12 May (1971) 316 I think Eliot would prefer your emendation. At any rate we are on ground of imponderabilia.
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags ii. 111 Every week we have chamber music. There are certain imponderabilia at the Old Mill which, to be crude, have their market value.
1957 Times 17 Dec. 9/7 Tactically, the chiefs are in a weak position: but nobody can say what psychological imponderabilia may not be raked up if the attack is carried further.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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