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un-understandableness

un-understandableness noun: the quality of being ununderstandable.

Noun

un-understandableness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being ununderstandable.
    • The following passage of the opium-eater’s own, evidently intended to be very fine, possesses as much of what Jeremy Bentham calls un-understandableness, as any I have for some time met, even from the Kantean school.1827, “Diary of an M. P.”, in The Inspector, Literary Magazine and Review, volume II, London: Effingham Wilson, page 325
    • Where he erst arrived with weary brain, in search of dissipation, and found nothing but a new exertion and thus a painful over[-]strain; where he therefore had to complain of too great length, of too much seriousness, or finally of complete un[-]understandableness:[…]1894, Richard Wagner, “Preface to the Public Issue of the Poem of the Bühnenfestspiel “Der Ring des Nibelungen.””, in William Ashton Ellis, transl., Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, volume III (The...

Examples of un-understandableness in a sentence

  • But we have not yet reached the height from which we may appreciate his originality and “un-understandableness.”1910, The Book-plate Booklet, page 36:
  • His address on Robert Browning was a delight, dwelling especially on the spiritual side of this man’s gift to the world, though sometimes speaking of the un-understandableness of some of his poems.1918 March 27, “Education Day”, in The Albany-Decatur Daily, volume 7, number 26, Albany, Ala.:

Synonyms of un-understandableness

Forms of un-understandableness

alternative formununderstandableness

Origin of un-understandableness

From un-understandable + -ness.

Questions about un-understandableness

What does un-understandableness mean?
Un-understandableness means the quality of being ununderstandable.
How do you use un-understandableness in a sentence?
But we have not yet reached the height from which we may appreciate his originality and “un-understandableness.”
What part of speech is un-understandableness?
Un-understandableness is a noun.

Words near un-understandableness in the dictionary

  1. un-timed
  2. un-times
  3. un-timing
  4. un-traumatic
  5. un-understandability
  6. un-understandableness
  7. un-uninstallable
  8. un-unravelable
  9. un-untieable
  10. un-vegan
  11. un-with-it

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