Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being inconceivable.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The quality of being inconceivable.
- n. countable Something inconceivable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being inconceivable; inconceivableness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being impossible to conceive
Examples
“His inconceivability is the foundation of His immeasurableness.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
“The possibility that there is no life after death, no paranormal events, no God and no greater meaning to their existence ponies up an unimaginably vast array of negative emotions as to the "inconceivability" of the above.”
“Heredity and the origin of life must be taken into account; the "inconceivability" of the process has some weight; and the apparent infringement of the law of Conservation of Energy is a serious objection.”
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
“Distinction between "inconceivability" in a formal or symbolical, and in a material or realisable sense.”
“Distinction between "inconceivability" in an absolute and in a relative sense.”
“inconceivability" is used in the sense of relative inconceivability, it is incorrectly used, unless it is qualified in some way; because, if used without qualification, there is danger of its being confused with inconceivability in its absolute sense.”
“One conference panelist, Sylvia Math é of the Universit é de Provence, pondered the inconceivability of Updike "being born in the West.”
“Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe.”
“We could not have known that 32 years later, the sentiment would teeter between cliché and inconceivability, a judgment shared by Slate's young commentators -- even the self-professed Springsteen maniacs.”
“As people grasped the inconceivability of nuclear warfare, and learned more about Russians as people, their verbal stance toward Russians changed, and gradually their negative feelings dissipated as well.”
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