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- noun The
quality of beingungraspable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In particular it is the sorrow and 'ungraspability' or 'intangibilty' (or just 'mystery' if that is easier) of Hungarian folk music that conjures voyages in my subconscious.
Museum Blogs 2009
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Schlegel's critique of first-principle philosophy is rooted (like Novalis ') in a sense of the ungraspability of the absolute or unconditioned.
Friedrich Schlegel Speight, Allen 2007
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This fact of ungraspability, that a person can never be completely known, that in encountering another person, we encounter the limits of our power is what causes the life-writer to falter.
openDemocracy Heidi James-Dunbar 2010
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This fact of ungraspability, that a person can never be completely known, that in encountering another person, we encounter the limits of our power is what causes the life-writer to falter.
openDemocracy Heidi James-Dunbar 2010
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