inexplicability
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This inexplicability is stunningly captured by Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides.
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- 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
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This inexplicability is stunningly captured by Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides.
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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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- = French inexplicabilité; as inexplicable + -ity: see -bility.