inconceivableness

Noun

inconceivableness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being inconceivable.
   • An unfair way which some men take with themselves: who, because of the inconceivableness of something they find in one, throw themselves violently into the contrary hypothesis, though altogether as unintelligible to an unbiassed understanding.1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV, Chapter III
   • Now I cannot but wonder that so much stress should be laid upon the circumstance of inconceivableness, when there is such ample experience to show, that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth very much an...1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, London: John W. Parker, Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 313

   Synonyms:

   inconceivability