Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being incomprehensible, in either sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
incomprehensible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being incomprehensible
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Examples
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The one on the right is just missing the tar and feathers. the only thing epic about it is the level of incomprehensibility. it's funny how the word incomprehensibility looks a lot like the "bike" itself.
BSYNC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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"it's funny how the word incomprehensibility looks a lot like the "bike" itself."
BSYNC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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So I chose the word incomprehensibility, and I-- "
Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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Alec Baldwin (with whom Ronnie Kroell's life partner, Taylor Proffitt, starred in Equus this summer in East Hampton) - spoke to Ronnie and Taylor of the "incomprehensibility" of codified inequality.
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Alec Baldwin (with whom Ronnie Kroell's life partner, Taylor Proffitt, starred in Equus this summer in East Hampton) - spoke to Ronnie and Taylor of the "incomprehensibility" of codified inequality.
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Alec Baldwin (with whom Ronnie Kroell's life partner, Taylor Proffitt, starred in Equus this summer in East Hampton) - spoke to Ronnie and Taylor of the "incomprehensibility" of codified inequality.
Ronnie Kroell and Stephanie A. Jones: The Vital Role of Allies 2010
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Alec Baldwin (with whom Ronnie Kroell's life partner, Taylor Proffitt, starred in Equus this summer in East Hampton) - spoke to Ronnie and Taylor of the "incomprehensibility" of codified inequality.
Ronnie Kroell and Stephanie A. Jones: The Vital Role of Allies Stephanie A. Jones 2010
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Then Laddie spelled "incomprehensibility," and they finished up the "bilities" and the "alities" with a rush and changed McGuffey's for Webster, with five on Laddie's side and three on the Princess ', and when they quit with it, the Princess was alone, and Laddie and our little May facing her.
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Then Laddie spelled "incomprehensibility," and they finished up the
Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Should the times become greatly depressed and failures and assignments become frequent, I begin to lop off the large words in my own language, beginning with "incomprehensibility,"
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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