Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The character or quality of being inexplicable; also, something that is inexplicable.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or state of being inexplicable.

Examples

  • “Then inexplicability strikes anew—electrical outages, dogs fleeing town, cars levitating violently, auto parts and other hunks of steel vanishing, as if sucked up by some invisible Iron Giant.”

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  • “The sheer inexplicability of an event like the Shoah is a difficult concept to convey to an audience of Europeans or Americans.”

    Simon & Schuster: Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

  • “It made sense of the act, which before had been off-putting in its sheer randomness and inexplicability.”

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  • “A beautiful ending, because it calls on the audience to act, to help the players, an frustrating impossibility, and it fixes the memory of the episode in our minds because every time we hear a lost roar above the impenetrable clouds we will be conscious of the inexplicability of fate.”

    "He meets a deaf woman who loves music. Her hearing aid has broken. But she has good eyes and can read to him, but she slurs the words."

  • “But what I didn't get a chance to say was that yes, I could imagine an Indian director making that film with success -- such is our shrinking world -- and that any artist who bothers to look at extreme poverty (in all its shit-covered inexplicability) with an unflinching eye and manages to keep us from turning away, has something worthwhile to say.”

    Daphne Beal: Embrace the Paradox!

  • “Ziporyn 2004 gives four characteristics of the actions of one practicing revolutionary desire, a charismatic: inexplicability, absolute confidence, sacrifice, and meaninglessness.”

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

    Suicide

  • “(Afterward, there never was a peep from Sid about the unexpectedness -- and inexplicability -- of that outcome.)”

    AP and McCain foresee a victory

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