unpicturableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpɪktʃ(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈpɪk(t)ʃərəb(ə)l/ Impossible to picture; that cannot (easily) be envisaged or portrayed.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adjective] > beyond description
undeclarablec1449
not to be spoken of1600
phraseless1609
termless1609
unexpressivea1616
unexprimable1632
wingy1643
unfanciable1669
indescribable1785
unpicturable?1819
unportrayable1852
superinenarrable1873
?1819–20 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 409 If Idea be employed as a synonime of Idol, or visual Image, and incomprehensible mean unpicturable, or that which cannot be contained within an Outline,—then..it is a truism.
1825 Monthly Mag. July 527/1 But that were nothing to the unpicturable incongruity of this quotation.
1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. II. 337 By a mixture of the two, an insertion of unpicturable power between the successive picturable things.
a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxxix. 218 The heat and unpicturable secret centre of light's and beauty's self.
2008 New Yorker 7 Jan. 62/2 It seems almost unpicturable, not immemorial, but nearly unmemorizable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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