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Inscrutability

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in·scru·ta·ble  (n-skrt-bl)
adj.
Difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable. See Synonyms at mysterious.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin nscrtbilis : in-, not; see in-1 + scrtr, to scrutinize; see scrutiny.]
in·scruta·bili·ty, in·scruta·ble·ness n.
in·scruta·bly adv.
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Noun1.inscrutability - the quality of being impossible to investigate; "the inscrutability of the future"
incomprehensibility - the quality of being incomprehensible
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Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.
The Black Cat by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Daughtry dismissed the matter from his thoughts as no more than a thing in keeping with the general inscrutability of the Chinese mind.
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The smooth manner of the spy, curiously in dissonance with his ostentatiously rough dress, and probably with his usual demeanour, received such a check from the inscrutability of Carton,--who was a mystery to wiser and honester men than he,--that it faltered here and failed him.
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