单词 | inexplicability |
释义 | inexplicabilityn. a. The quality of being inexplicable; incapability of being explained. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexplicableness > [noun] inexplicableness1652 unexplicableness1662 unaccountableness1676 unaccountability1704 inexplicability1804 indecipherableness1806 indecipherability1894 unanalysability1941 1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 513 The inexplicability of many allusions, especially in Taliesin. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. x. 241 The inexplicability which seemed to shroud the purposes and conduct of his new ally. 1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith v. ii. 321 The very appearance of such inexplicability is a portion of the probation. b. (with an and plural) Something inexplicable. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexplicableness > [noun] > instance of indissolvable1661 inexplicable1745 unaccountable1789 inexplicability1814 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xxiii. 355 This is one of the inexplicabilities of human nature. View more context for this quotation 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.1804 |
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