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indescribability

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  • noun uncountable The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • noun countable Something which cannot be described.

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Examples

  • On a side note, I found Joanie's descriptions of her visions and their indescribability and God being everywhere she looked to be quite accurate, from my own personal experience.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010

  • Mr. McClellan has raised his asshood to absolute ineffability and indescribability.

    Think Progress » McClellan: Media Should “Publicly Apologize” For Reporting On Mobile Weapons Lab Story 2006

  • Alston maintains, therefore, that when mystics talk about ˜indescribability™ they refer to the difficulty of describing in literal terms, rather than by metaphor, analogy, and symbols.

    Mysticism Gellman, Jerome 2005

  • This perception, if we look to its origin, may turn out to be primitive; no doubt the feeling of "crude extensity" is an original sensation; every inference, association, and distinction is a thing that looms up suddenly before the mind, and the nature and actuality of which is a datum of what -- to indicate its irresistible immediacy and indescribability -- we may well call sense.

    The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907

  • But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • What I love most about Inglorious Basterds is its utter indescribability.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lawrence O'Donnell 2010

  • “ineffability” or indescribability an essential mark of the mystical.

    Mysticism Gellman, Jerome 2005

  • A snorting sound, which, accompanied by a terrific clatter of old iron and the crunching of road-mendings, had been steadily growing from distant to near, and from loud to deafening, now reached a pitch of utter indescribability; and as a large splay-wheeled, tall-funneled, plowing engine rolled off the Bensley highroad and lumbered in upon the right-of-way, the powerful bouquet of hot lubricating oil nullified all other smells, and the atmosphere became opaque to the point of solidity.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • _un_embodied Justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

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