unresolvability

For me, the most exciting thing about ghost stories is their unresolvability – if that makes sense.

Hauntings « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

This is why the right and the left both find fault with postmodernism, but this is only the unresolvability of postmodern works.

Nay to the Naysayers: Avatar, Credit, and Intertextuality 2010

The celebratory conclusion of the book results not from her successful elision of the conflict, but from the acceptance of its fundamental unresolvability. 5 Such acceptance is what makes Charicleia seem so at one with the world, active, and yet, at peace.

The Angry Owner 1999