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单词 indescribability
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indescribabilityn.

Etymology: < indescribable adj.: see -ity suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: indescribaˈbility.
Incapacity of being described; also (with an and plural) something that cannot be described.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexpressibility > [noun]
unspeakablenessa1586
incommunicableness1615
ineffability1629
incommunicability1640
unexpressibleness1652
ineffableness1681
unutterableness1681
inexpressibleness1727
unexpressibility1817
indescribability1824
inexpressibility1826
unspeakability1845
unnameability1862
indescribableness1880
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > and indescribable
what-not1602
watnawhat1725
nondescript1802
indescribability1824
indescribables1839
1824 Examiner 456/2 In ably conveying the assumed hoyden, and falling somewhat short of critical conception in the indescribabilities.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. ii. 18 A fearful indescribability.
1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 21 Sept. I have now done my best to describe what..I may term the indescribability of Transatlantic warfare.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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