单词 | unknowability |
释义 | unknowabilityn. 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). < n.1863 |
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