Inexplicability

Quick meaning: Inexplicability is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.

Meaning

(uncountable) The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Something that is inexplicable.

Example Sentences

[T]he inexplicability of the general’s conduct dwelt much on her thoughts.

By Monday, the small town of Franklin, New Jersey (pop. 5,000), had become an Alfred Hitchcock crime scene, with two suspects arrested for murders so pointless that their inexplicability was virtually a cinematic device.

For upwards of four years, whilst the crowd was puzzled with ‘hired kings,’ and many other inexplicabilities, I can truly affirm, that, to me, ‘Wharton was as plain,’ as if I had surveyed the interior of Sir Francis Burdett’s mind, uneased by its tegument of flesh; […]

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

Word Forms

• inexplicabilities

Synonyms for inexplicability

Depending on context, synonyms include inexplicableness, inexplicable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unexplainability, unexplainableness, incomprehensibleness, explicability, inexpiableness, unexplainedness.

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