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Incomprehensibility

noun
1.
The quality of being incomprehensible.





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"Incomprehensibility" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfectly, but only by fragments, and under various conditions of obscurity.[34] This last fact renders the visible objects of Nature complete as a type of the human nature. We have, observe, first, Subordination; secondly, Individuality; lastly, and this not the least essential character, Incomprehensibility; a perpetual lesson, in every serrated point and shining vein which escapes or deceives our sight among the forest leaves, how little we may hope to discern clearly, or judge justly, the rents and veins ...
— The Elements of Drawing - In Three Letters to Beginners • John Ruskin
... him again, and the great niggard bestows no grain of sand, no ray of light, no breath of wind, without reclaiming it for his household, which is ruled by no design, no reason, no goodness, but by a tyrannical necessity, whose slave he himself is. The coward hides behind the cloud of incomprehensibility, and can be revealed only by himself—I would I could strip him of the veil! Thus I see the thing that ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


Words linked to "Incomprehensibility" :   inscrutability, obscureness, abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness, opacity, incomprehensible, unintelligibility, quality, unclearness, noise, opaqueness, impenetrableness, comprehensibility, illegibility, impenetrability


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