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单词 unknowability
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unknowabilityn.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˌnəʊəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌənˌnoʊəˈbɪlᵻdi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unknowable adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < unknowable adj. + -ity suffix: see -bility suffix. Compare earlier unknowableness n.
The quality, fact, or state of being unknowable. Cf. unknowableness n.
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
1863 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 272 The doctrine of unknowability.
1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 28 The unknowability of the primal Cause.
1939 Kenyon Rev. 1 71 Unlike writers like Eliot and even Dostoevsky,..Kafka made the unknowability of God his chief postulate.
1986 P. Fuller Marches Past (1991) 174 I find myself mourning for a father I never knew, the man who insulated himself in a cloud of unknowability.
2003 Jrnl. Relig. 83 532 Schlegel opposed Absolute Idealism with a critical philosophy that established the limits of knowledge and propounded the unknowability of the Absolute.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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