Word.ws English Dictionary

unknowability

unknowability noun: the quality or state of being unknowable.

Noun

unknowability (countable and uncountable, plural unknowabilities)

  1. The quality or state of being unknowable.
    • At the end of her book we feel we know these couples as intimately as if we were part of their circle, but the ultimate nature of each relationship is left inviolate in its unknowability.2007 June 24, Tina Brown, “Couples”, in New York Times

Antonyms of unknowability

Forms of unknowability

pluralunknowabilities

Origin of unknowability

From un- + knowability.

Questions about unknowability

What does unknowability mean?
Unknowability means the quality or state of being unknowable.
What part of speech is unknowability?
Unknowability is a noun.
What is the plural of unknowability?
The plural of unknowability is unknowabilities.

Words near unknowability in the dictionary

  1. unknotting
  2. unknottings
  3. unknotty
  4. unknow
  5. unknowabilities
  6. unknowability
  7. unknowable
  8. unknowableness
  9. unknowables
  10. unknowably
  11. unknowen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unknowability (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unknowability.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unknowability. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.