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Meaning of unparaphrasable | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Impossible to paraphrase

not-comparable

Examples

“Movement like this suggests images and meanings, yet refuses to dictate--it is movement with unspecified or unparaphrasable content, but content nonetheless[…].”
“The language of a poem is not a vehicle for conveying a thought that is independently expressible; it conveys a thought that is encapsulated in the vehicle. Poems create hyperintensional contexts, with content that is unparaphrasable,[…]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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