Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
ineffable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's said that the best things can't be talked about because no tongue can describe it and we're stuck with language that can only be a descriptive referral to thethings that refer to this ineffableness (is that a word?)
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It's said that the best things can't be talked about because no tongue can describe it and we're stuck with language that can only be a descriptive referral to thethings that refer to this ineffableness (is that a word?)
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The more describable and circumscribed the world becomes, the more its ineffableness appeals.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Taking the cyber out of cyberspace 2003
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The mother realises in her child the great Idea, which is in every child, the ineffableness of which, however, is not revealed to any one else.
Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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