ineffability

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His ineffability, his eternity, and his sovereignty and independent subsistence, upon whom all other things depend.

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  • Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Taoism affirm the ineffability of Ultimate Reality in their assertions that no words or intellection can properly convey its nature. —  The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 3
  • Yet, in God's perfect simplicity lies his ineffability. —  LifeTwo - Comments
  • It has the vividness and ineffability of a waking dream, the strange beauty and internal logic of a fairy tale, and above all, evokes a vanishing world that may or may not be our own. —  Band Weblogs
  • Following the commentary of Candrakîrti in particular, this interpretation is likely to stress the ineffability of Nagarjuna's insight, reached by a transcendence of logical and linguistic convention in a leap of yogic intuition, a leap that can be perfectly accomplished only by a Buddha. —  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
  • A personal God, majestic in his spender and magnitude, possessing in his person the qualities of ineffability, incomparability, numinousness, and immutability. —  ExChristian.Net -- encouraging ex-Christians
 

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  1. = French ineffabilité = Spanish inefabilidad = Portuguese ineffabilidade = Italian ineffabilità; as ineffable + -ity: see -bility.
 

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