indescribability
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Sensorial changes are by no means uncommon, and they are of every kind, description, and indescribability."
- "These ideas may seem at first sight somewhat startling; but when we realise the extraordinary depth and indescribability of the emotions of music, the very remoteness and far-reachingness of the explanation is in favour of its validity."
- "This perception, if we look to its origin, may turn out to be primitive; no doubt the feeling of "crude extensity" is an original sensation; every inference, association, and distinction is a thing that looms up suddenly before the mind, and the nature and actuality of which is a datum of what — to indicate its irresistible immediacy and indescribability — we may well call sense. Forms are seen, and if we think of the origin of the perception, we may well call this vision a sensation."
- "But the unembodied Justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!"
- "The featurelessness of the affective quality, on the other hand, its indescribability, is due to the very simplicity of its relation to the organism."
- "This emphasis on the indescribability of God in intense religious experience is consistently found in the more mystical religious traditions."
Etymology
From indescribable + -ity or in- + describability.