Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inconceivable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being inconceivable; inconceivableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The quality of being
inconceivable . - noun countable Something
inconceivable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being impossible to conceive
Etymologies
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Examples
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His inconceivability is the foundation of His immeasurableness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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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.
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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
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Distinction between "inconceivability" in a formal or symbolical, and in a material or realisable sense.
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Distinction between "inconceivability" in an absolute and in a relative sense.
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"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.
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Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe.
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Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe.
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Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe.
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One conference panelist, Sylvia Math é of the Universit é de Provence, pondered the inconceivability of Updike "being born in the West."
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