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  • adjective Not articulable; incapable of being articulated.

Etymologies

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First attested in 1825: formed as in- +‎ articulable; compare inarticulate and the slightly earlier (1824) French inarticulable.

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Examples

  • But however much we might be writing as an attempt to figurate an otherwise inarticulable awareness of our own fucked-upness (and to thereby comprehend and control it), the full reality may be less simple.

    Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

  • But however much we might be writing as an attempt to figurate an otherwise inarticulable awareness of our own fucked-upness (and to thereby comprehend and control it), the full reality may be less simple.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • It's precisely because we can't construct an accurate articulation B, because the situation is inarticulable in purely representational language, that we model it in symbolic terms, where the true/false evaluation is kind of beside the point.

    Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

  • It's precisely because we can't construct an accurate articulation B, because the situation is inarticulable in purely representational language, that we model it in symbolic terms, where the true/false evaluation is kind of beside the point.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Given the co-existence of a variety of mutually exclusive truth-claims upon which apparently hang the salvation of millions and in the name of which people are willing to die and to kill, paradox offers a method of reading that replaces violence with the indirect and ultimately inarticulable feeling that one is in the presence of something beyond words.

    Byron and Romantic Occidentalism 2008

  • To make sense of this the reader must understand it as symbol for the absent subject, the vicious illogic of a no-win situation so incredibly, inedibly fucked-up as to be representatively inarticulable.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (1) Hal Duncan 2008

  • To make sense of this the reader must understand it as symbol for the absent subject, the vicious illogic of a no-win situation so incredibly, inedibly fucked-up as to be representatively inarticulable.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Sorry to go all inarticulable Potter Stewart test on you.

    McCain Camp Denies Any Unethical Conduct 2009

  • Because it was overwhelmingly wonderful for me, too, to the point of being pretty much inarticulable.

    And It Was Good 2009

  • No, it was an inarticulable something to the character of Mouse in Nova that I found utterly compelling.

    Notes from New Sodom: To the Water-Fountains by Hal Duncan 2009

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