Meaning of un-understandableness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being ununderstandable.

uncountable

Examples

“The following passage of the opium-eater’s own⟳, evidently intended to be very fine, possesses as much of what Jeremy Bentham calls un-understandableness, as any I have⟳ for some time met, even from the Kantean school.”

“Where he erst arrived with weary brain, in search⟳ of dissipation, and found nothing but a new exertion and thus a painful over[-]strain⟳; where he therefore had to complain⟳ of too great length, of too much seriousness, or finally of complete⟳ un[-]understandableness:[…]”

“But we have⟳ not yet reached the height from which we may appreciate his originality and “un-understandableness.””

“His address on Robert Browning was a delight, dwelling especially on the spiritual side of this man’s gift to the world, though sometimes speaking of the un-understandableness of some of his poems.”

“She could have⟳ told him that life was like⟳ that, too, but only a light⟳ fluttery sigh⟳ answered him as she moved on, leaving him shaking his head at an age-old question⟳, the un-understandableness of women.”

“We may be mistaken, for we make⟳ no pretension to mysticism save⟳ perhaps as one who stands in an astonished awe of the un-understandableness of what and whence and why and whither of ourselves and the universes of worlds, with all their beauty;”

“Only the supernaturalism , the un[-]understandableness, of the human soul and mind⟳.”

“When according to the method that is to be applied in future ‘un-understandableness’ is made to refer⟳ to insentient thing, then this ‘un-understandableness is easily applicable to Prakriti’ and there is no contradiction when [] is adopted as the mode.”

“I knew that the imagery held all I could possibly hold⟳ and want⟳ to say⟳, and I marveled at the un[-]understandableness of it.”

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