Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted to another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
incommunicable .
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Examples
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I can't WAIT to hear what American sounds like to Europeans, too! the song is about "incommunicability" because in modern times people are not able to communicate to each other anymore, and "prisencolinensinainciusol" is supposed to stand for
MetaFilter 2009
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Even more relentless! posted by the song is about "incommunicability" because in modern times people are not able to communicate to each other anymore, and "prisencolinensinainciusol" is supposed to stand for "universal love."
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Even more relentless! posted by the song is about "incommunicability" because in modern times people are not able to communicate to each other anymore, and "prisencolinensinainciusol" is supposed to stand for "universal love."
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One theme that's risen to prominence in the discussion is the incommunicability of the distinctively personal.
Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007
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One theme that's risen to prominence in the discussion is the incommunicability of the distinctively personal.
An excuse followed by a provocation Mike L 2007
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The evolutionary barrier of incommunicability among nature, animals, man, and astral angels is thus overcome by offices of silent love.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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The evolutionary barrier of incommunicability among nature, animals, man, and astral angels is thus overcome by offices of silent love.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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It was a highly gratifying idea; the incommunicability of one stratum of animal life with another, -- though Hedger pretended it was only an experiment in unusual lighting.
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To a person therefore belongs a threefold incommunicability, expressed in notes (b), (c), and (d).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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It was a highly gratifying idea; the incommunicability of one stratum of animal life with another, -- though Hedger pretended it was only an experiment in unusual lighting.
Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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