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inconceivableness|ɪnkənˈsiːvəb(ə)lnɪs| [f. prec. + -ness.] The quality of being inconceivable.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. vi. 57 Wee need go no further for an evidence of its inconceivableness. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. iii. §6 Men..who because of the inconceivableness of something they find in one, throw themselves violently into the contrary hypothesis. a1740Abernethy in Reid's Intell. Powers iv. iii. (1803) II. 63 The measure of impossibility to us is inconceivableness, that of which we can have no idea, but that reflecting upon it, it appears to be nothing. 1872H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. §426 The inconceivableness of its negation is that which shows a cognition to possess the highest rank. |