inscrutabilityn.
/ɪnskruːtəˈbɪlɪti/ The quality of being inscrutable; transferred something inscrutable.
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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
1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. i. §3. 20 These Mysteries..are Gods own Inscrutabilitie.
1792 G. Wakefield Mem. 130 (T.) His theological conceptions were always..to me..one of the inscrutabilities of mystery.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 291 The awe which Nature's grandeur and inscrutability brings with it.
1880 J. Caird Introd. Philos. Relig. i. 31 Reverence, not for a mere blank inscrutability, but for what I can think of as an intelligence essentially the same with my own.
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