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indescribable
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in·de·scrib·a·ble  (nd-skrb-bl)
adj.
1. Impossible to describe: indescribable views.
2. Exceeding description: experienced indescribable delight. See Synonyms at unspeakable.

inde·scriba·bili·ty, inde·scriba·ble·ness n.
inde·scriba·bly adv.

indescribable
Adjective
too intense or extreme for words
indescribably adv
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Adj.1.indescribableindescribable - defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
inexpressible, unexpressible - defying expression

indescribable
adjective unutterable, indefinable, beyond words, ineffable, inexpressible, beyond description, incommunicable, beggaring description
Translations

indescribable [ɪndɪˈskraɪbəbl] adjindescriptible
indescribable [ɪndɪˈskraɪbəbl] adjindescriptible
indescribable [ɪndɪsˈkraɪbəbl] adjunbeschreiblich
indescribable [ɪndɪˈskraɪbəbl] adjindescrivibile


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My current writerly projects seek to make sense out of--bring a new sort of order to, in the reflective realm of a writer's imagination--the time of "skin, skin, and hot blood" (Morrison's description in Beloved of the indescribability of lynching) while making connections between those traumatic historical realities and the sexualized, sometimes racialized realities inevitably present in torture and often obscenely visible under repressive political regimes.
The pastor was Lorenz Ludolf, whose comments about the indescribability of the suffering in his village were noted at the beginning of this paper.
 
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