incomprehensibility

Noun

incomprehensibility (countable and uncountable, plural incomprehensibilities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being incomprehensible.
   • We should be quite willing to desist from the demand of a dogmatical answer to our questions, if we understood beforehand that, be the answer what it may, it would only serve to increase our ignorance, to throw us from one incomprehensibility into another, from one obscurity into another still...1781, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Sphere, →ISBN, page 375
   • The king here alludes, as he does in various other passages, to the ancient Academicians, or Sceptics, who taught the uncertainty and incomprehensibility of truth.1789, Frederick II, King of Prussia, Thomas Holcroft, Posthumous Works of Frederic II, King of Prussia, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, page 127
2. (countable) Something that cannot be understood.
   • That left Bradly as bemused as ever, for it posed another incomprehensibility: Why had Podson walked here?1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65