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indescribabilities

indescribabilities is the plural of indescribability.

Meaning of indescribability

Noun

indescribability (countable and uncountable, plural indescribabilities)

  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
    • Sensorial changes are by no means uncommon, and they are of every kind, description, and indescribability.1879, Henry Hartshorne, John Russell Reynolds, The Sense of Beauty, H. C. Lea, page 769
  2. (countable) Something which cannot be described.
    • The clothed embodied justice that sits in Westminster Hall, with penalties, parchments, tipstaves, is very visible. But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 2”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)

Questions about indescribabilities

What is indescribabilities the plural of?
Indescribabilities is the plural of indescribability.

Words near indescribabilities in the dictionary

  1. inderite
  2. inderivability
  3. inderivable
  4. inderivative
  5. inderivatively
  6. indescribabilities
  7. indescribability
  8. indescribable
  9. indescribableness
  10. indescribables
  11. indescribably

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