incommunicablenessn.
The quality of being incommunicable:† b. Want of inter-communication or intercourse.
a. Incapability of being communicated, imparted, or shared.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexpressibility > [noun]
unspeakablenessa1586
incommunicableness1615
ineffability1629
incommunicability1640
unexpressibleness1652
ineffableness1681
unutterableness1681
inexpressibleness1727
unexpressibility1817
indescribability1824
inexpressibility1826
unspeakability1845
unnameability1862
indescribableness1880
the mind > possession > retaining > [noun] > fact of not being imparted or shared > inability to be imparted or shared
incommunicableness1615
incommunicability1640
1615 Bp. J. Hall No Peace with Rome viii, in Recoll. Treat. 858 We neither can, nor dare arrogate vnto our selues those things, which by an holy reseruation, and incommunicablenesse, are proper onely vnto the Highest.
1701 T. Beverley Praise of Glory 11 The Incommunicableness of the Perfection of all the Attributes of God.
1882 Matheson in Expositor Aug. 140 The Jew emphasized..the self-containedness, the incommunicableness of God.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun]
incommunicableness1643
non-communion1648
non-intercourse1794
unsocialism1849
unsociality1852
non-fraternizationc1870
non-frat1945
social deprivation1958
1643 Herle in T. Goodwin, etc. Apol. Narration Introd. The vindication of the Protestant party in generall, from the aspersions of Incommunicablenesse within it selfe, and Incompatiblenesse with Magistracy.
c. Incommunicativeness, reticence, taciturnity.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun]
stillnessc1050
silencea1225
seld-speech?c1225
taciturnityc1450
retreata1533
mum1555
silentness1573
reticence1603
reticencya1617
reservation1619
parciloquy1656
reserve1659
costiveness1792
incommunicativeness1815
mutism1824
incommunicableness1835
ineloquence1843
incommunicability1855
unspeaking1860
mumchanceness1910
mumchanciness1920
1835 Edinb. Rev. 60 280 His incommunicableness with his children accounts for the paucity of those familiar anecdotes.
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