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ineffabilities

ineffabilities is the plural of ineffability.

Meaning of ineffability

Noun

ineffability (usually uncountable, plural ineffabilities)

  1. (usually) The quality or state of being ineffable.
    • To him, the spirit lodged within Billy, and looking out from his welkin eyes as from windows, that ineffability it was which made the dimple in his dyed cheek, suppled his joints, and dancing in his yellow curls made him preeminently the Handsome Sailor.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

Questions about ineffabilities

What is ineffabilities the plural of?
Ineffabilities is the plural of ineffability.

Words near ineffabilities in the dictionary

  1. ineducability
  2. ineducable
  3. ineducated
  4. ineducation
  5. inee
  6. ineffabilities
  7. ineffability
  8. ineffable
  9. Ineffable Husbands
  10. ineffableness
  11. ineffables

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