incognizable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
Example Sentences
- "1658, Thomas Saintserf (translator), Entertainments of the Cours: or, Academical Conversations, compiled by Melchior de Marmet, London, p. 104, A dead Body is always incognizable, not only because it is ordinarily changed, but because it neither speaks, nor acts; and for that the qualities of its Soul, which we should know, are departed with her, and have left nothing but a trunk, and a lump without motion."
- "The lettish race […] was not a primitive stock, as the finnish, the germanic, or slavonian, but a distinct branch, now become incognizable, of the Slavi […]"
- "[…] if therefore position is, to the nascent intelligence, incognizable except as the position of something that produces an impression on the organism; how is it possible for the idea of position ever to be dissociated from that of body?"
- "All this time the incognizable nouveau was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes."
Etymology
From in- + cognizable.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in
Inflected Forms
more incognizable (comparative)
most incognizable (superlative)