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Answer for the clue "The quality of being incomprehensible ", 19 letters:
incomprehensibility

Word definitions for incomprehensibility in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incomprehensibility \In*com`pre*hen`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. incompr['e]hensibilit['e].] The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability. The constant, universal ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being incomprehensible.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being incomprehensible [ant: comprehensibility ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French incompréhensibilité (16c.); see incomprehensible .

Usage examples of incomprehensibility.

Or how do you mystics, who maintain the absolute incomprehensibility of the Deity, differ from Sceptics or Atheists, who assert, that the first cause of all is unknown and unintelligible?

They stank and they gibbered, they uttered incomprehensibilities and obscenities, they messed impertinently with her clean dishes, and pawed through her carefully stacked foodstuff’s.

The sense of incomprehensibility was the same, the yawning, gulfing nothingness was the same.