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Incomprehensibility

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in·com·pre·hen·si·ble  (nkm-pr-hns-bl, n-km-)
adj.
1.
a. Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible: incomprehensible jargon.
b. Impossible to know or fathom: incomprehensible mysteries.
2. Archaic Having no limits; boundless.

incom·pre·hensi·bili·ty, incom·pre·hensi·ble·ness n.
incom·pre·hensi·bly adv.
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Noun1.incomprehensibility - the quality of being incomprehensible
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
inscrutability - the quality of being impossible to investigate; "the inscrutability of the future"
illegibility - the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered
impenetrableness, impenetrability - incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand
noise - incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
opaqueness, opacity - incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness, obscureness - the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
unintelligibility - incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible
unclearness - incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear
comprehensibility, understandability - the quality of comprehensible language or thought


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If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive.
To question him in detail, and endeavour to reconcile his answers; to closet him with accountants and sharp practitioners, learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy; was only to put the case out at compound interest and incomprehensibility.
 
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