Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being inexplicable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being difficult to account for; the state of being
inexplicable
Etymologies
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inexplicable + -ness
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Examples
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The explanation of that which is explicable, does but bring out into greater clearness the inexplicableness of that which remains behind.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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The irregular, variable character of his visitor tended to heighten them, by producing an appearance of inexplicableness and mystery.
Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796
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And the slippery inexplicableness of evil is a theme that draws me again and again.
murderati 2009
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"The inexplicableness of human action always amuses me; the inexplicable is romance, at least that is the only way I can understand romance.
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