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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The character of being incomprehensible, in either sense of that word.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The condition of being incomprehensible.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of being incomprehensible

Examples

  • “The one on the right is just missing the tar and feathers. the only thing epic about it is the level of incomprehensibility. it's funny how the word incomprehensibility looks a lot like the "bike" itself.”

    BSYNC Friday Fun Quiz!

  • “it's funny how the word incomprehensibility looks a lot like the "bike" itself.”

    BSYNC Friday Fun Quiz!

  • “So I chose the word incomprehensibility, and I-- ”

    Pee-Wee Harris

  • “Alec Baldwin (with whom Ronnie Kroell's life partner, Taylor Proffitt, starred in Equus this summer in East Hampton) - spoke to Ronnie and Taylor of the "incomprehensibility" of codified inequality.”

    The Huffington Post: Ronnie Kroell: The Vital Role of Allies

  • “Then Laddie spelled "incomprehensibility," and they finished up the "bilities" and the "alities" with a rush and changed McGuffey's for Webster, with five on Laddie's side and three on the Princess ', and when they quit with it, the Princess was alone, and Laddie and our little May facing her.”

    Laddie: A True Blue Story

  • “Then Laddie spelled "incomprehensibility," and they finished up the”

    Laddie; a true blue story

  • “Should the times become greatly depressed and failures and assignments become frequent, I begin to lop off the large words in my own language, beginning with "incomprehensibility,”

    Remarks

  • “As a my friend Jarred well noted, "As the cultural gulf between have and have-nots increases, this kind of incomprehensibility (is it a joke or not) will be more common place.”

    carefully selected garbage

  • “Thus, it is true, we do not comprehend the practical, unconditioned necessity of the moral imperative, but we do, however, comprehend its incomprehensibility, which is all that can, in fairness, be demanded from a philosophy that seeks to reach the principles which mark the limit of human reason "[" Grundleg. zur”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy

  • incomprehensibility," and began to give out those "words of eight syllables with the accent on the sixth.”

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)

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