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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition or quality of being ineffable; unspeakableness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being ineffable; ineffableness; unspeakableness.

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  • noun The quality or state of being ineffable.

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Examples

  • The ineffability is that of a judge whose wisdom we cannot follow.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • The ineffability is that of a judge whose wisdom we cannot follow.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007

  • Two recent displays in Los Angeles set me on this perilous rumination, displays of mastery from artists who have long moved me with the twinned ineffability and logic - the simultaneous need to exist and existential improbability - of their work.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams Peter Frank 2010

  • Two recent displays in Los Angeles set me on this perilous rumination, displays of mastery from artists who have long moved me with the twinned ineffability and logic - the simultaneous need to exist and existential improbability - of their work.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams Peter Frank 2010

  • Donning an unadorned and boyish wardrobe that itself did not "weigh heavily," she fashioned renunciation into a contrary look of simplicity, ineffability, transcendent unconcern her competitor Paul Poiret called it "poverty deluxe".

    The Enduring Coco Chanel Laura Jacobs 2011

  • Two recent displays in Los Angeles set me on this perilous rumination, displays of mastery from artists who have long moved me with the twinned ineffability and logic - the simultaneous need to exist and existential improbability - of their work.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams Peter Frank 2010

  • The undulating "Never Talk About It" is both an incisive meditation on the ineffability of love and a terrific vehicle for Merritt's willowy but keening soprano.

    Album review: Country singer Tift Merritt's ‘See You on the Moon' 2010

  • Too much depended on the rendering of inner life into language, the ineffability of the one compounded by the approximations of the other, and both entirely dependent on a prior theoretical understanding of how the mind worked.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • The undulating "Never Talk About It" is both an incisive meditation on the ineffability of love and a terrific vehicle for Merritt's willowy but keening soprano.

    Album review: Tift Merritt, "See You on the Moon" 2010

  • Or is he telling us something about what truth has become for us, historically, that it has become a certain difficulty, and that if we are unwilling to be disarmed and to become, suddenly, unknowing, we assume instead a posture of dogmatism that may well sidetrack us from the evanescence, if not the ineffability, of a life?

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

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  • Being a living mokita. Immune to all gossip.

    July 29, 2008