Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Not knowable. n. Something that cannot be known.
WordNet
adj. not knowable [ant: knowable]
beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of lifer" [syn: transcendent]
Usage examples of "unknowable".
You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation.
The universal decagram, however, represents each of the possible emanations between the world of Knowledge and the worid of the Unknowable Infinite.
Before the end of the semester they winnowed them down to two: Was the New Glitterer sent by the gods for reasons unknown or unknowable?
Was the New Glitterer sent by people from another world for reasons unknown or unknowable?
And, for some reason, terrifyingly, Leck was gone, although he was faintly aware of her scratching and screaming in some place unknowable.
Caesar was my myna bird, rescued in some unknown, unknowable, miraculous fashion from the holocaust of the exorcism.
Let us assume that someone aboard this ship let us call her Zita, after the Goddess of Unknowable Things let us assume that Zita has decided to remove Cugel from the realm of the living.
Intellectual-Principle, treating them as impressions of reality upon it: we cannot strip it of truth and so make its objects unknowable and non-existent and in the end annul the Intellectual-Principle itself.
The white paintings were unknowable to many, knife-applied slabs of mucoid color.
How, coming unexpectedly on them in their Arcadia, the party found them unpresentable through dirt, and thenceforth unknowable through domestic complications that had filled their Arcadian cabin with half-breed children.
Her battle clocks, reset to zero, began to count off in femtoseconds, the last stop before the unknowable realtime of the universe.
Archive at Relay, or even the university libraries at Sjandra Kei, but without proper search automation it could be just as unknowable.
He must surely have heard them express their reverence for their aloof and unknowable god, and their contempt for the superstitions of the Meccans, who cherish such a multitude of idols and talismans and practice a credulous veneration of the sun and the moon and stars and planets and a myriad of demons.
The Jewish Balboa, the Jewish Mungo Park, Orellana, Pizarro, plowing unceasingly onward through one uncharted hairy jungle after another in the eternal quest for the unknowable prizes at the core of their hot, throbbing hearts.
Rather than devising a plan to regain my offices as businessman, father, and husband, I found myself thinking of bizcochos, blackhearts, melchiors and swizzle sticks, of the unknowable creature coiled within my skull, of the mystery these creatures posed, the exotic universal potentials their existence suggested, potentials most clearly expressed by the stormdweller.