Incognizable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Incognizable is an adjective meaning Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
Meaning
Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
Example Sentences
All this time the incognizable nouveau was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.
The lettish race […] was not a primitive stock, as the finnish, the germanic, or slavonian, but a distinct branch, now become incognizable, of the Slavi […]
[…] if therefore position is, to the nascent intelligence, incognizable except as the position of something that produces an impression on the organism; how is it possible for the idea of position ever to be dissociated from that of body?
1658, Thomas Saintserf (translator), Entertainments of the Cours: or, Academical Conversations, compiled by Melchior de Marmet, London, p. 104, A dead Body is always incognizable, not only because it is ordinarily changed, but because it neither speaks, nor acts; and for that the qualities of its Soul, which we should know, are departed with her, and have left nothing but a trunk, and a lump without motion.
Synonyms for incognizable
Depending on context, synonyms include imperceptible, incognoscible, unperceivable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unperceivable, incognoscible, imperceptible, incognisable, uncognizable, uncognisable.
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