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Incomprehensibility

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 sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith.
--South.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incomprehensibility

1640s, from French incompréhensibilité (16c.); see incomprehensible.

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incomprehensibility

n. The condition of being incomprehensible.

WordNet
incomprehensibility

n. the quality of being incomprehensible [ant: comprehensibility]

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.