inexplicability

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This inexplicability is stunningly captured by Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides.

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  1. The character or quality of being inexplicable; also, something that is inexplicable. The insistence upon this one ultimate inexplicability left no solid basis for the natural science of mind or body. Mind, IX. 370.

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  • Because if it continues amok its course will someday bring it to the Plain. —  The Silver Spike
  • But the inexplicability of the general's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. —  Northanger Abbey
  • This inexplicability is stunningly captured by Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides. —  Suicide
  • The mechanical inexplicability of organisms leads to an apparent conflict, which Kant refers to as an —  Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology
  • "And here I worked my circuits to the bone for you! —  The Norby Chronicles
 

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  1. = French inexplicabilité; as inexplicable + -ity: see -bility.

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