inconceivableadj.n.

/ɪnkənˈsiːvəb(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1700s -ceiveable.

Etymology: < in- prefix⁴ + conceivable adj. and n. Compare French inconcevable (1617 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).

A. adj.

1. That cannot be conceived or realized in the imagination; unthinkable, unimaginable, incredible. Often with exaggerative force for ‘hardly credible’, ‘incalculable’, ‘extraordinary’, of things which transcend common experience.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adjective]

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adjective] > unbelievable

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1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 34 With an inconceivable dexterity and quicknes.

1721 D. Bellamy tr. P. de Mornay Thoughts on Trinity Introd. 3 There can be but one God, and..his Perfections are both infinite and inconceivable.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 310 There were inconceivable quantities of coco-nuts.

1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 222 Light appears to move with a velocity that is truly inconceivable.

1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1876) II. i. iv. 229 One thing is inconceivable,—that the Turks should, as an existing nation, accept of modern civilization.

2. spec. As a philosophical term.The following distinctions in meaning, though disputed by some, are generally recognized: (a) Opposed to the fundamental laws of thought, self-contradictory, involving a contradiction in terms. (b) Repugnant to recognized axioms or established laws of nature. (c) Involving the dissolution of ideas which have become inseparably linked in the human mind. (d) Involving a combination of facts, which renders a proposition incredible to the ordinary mind. (e) Incapable of being represented by a mental image.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > paradoxical

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schizoid1955

schizophrenic1955

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > to nature, reason, or rule

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > of cognition > of an idea or concept > involving the dissolution of inseparable ideas

inconceivable1785

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adjective] > not imagined

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adjective] > implausible

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inconceivable1865

1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) i. iii. 10 What is inconceivable or contradictious, is nothing at all to us.

1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iii. 136 The Objection represents a Mystery as a Thing inconceivable..irreconcileable to..Reason.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 305 Power without substance is inconceiveable.

1829 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 202 The Unconditioned is incognisable and inconceivable.

1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. (1872) vi. 86 The first meaning of Inconceivable is, that of which the mind cannot form to itself any representation..the first and most proper meaning.

1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. (1872) vi. 90 This extends the term inconceivable to every combination of facts which..appears incredible. It was in this sense that the Antipodes were inconceivable.

1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. (1872) vi. 93 He [Hamilton] gives to the term a third sense. ‘We conceive a thing only as we think it within or under something else’..The inconceivable in this third sense, is simply the inexplicable.

1872 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. vii. xi. 408 Let me here define..what I mean by inconceivable, as distinguished from incredible or unbelievable. An inconceivable proposition is one of which the terms cannot, by any effort, be brought before consciousness in that relation which the proposition asserts between them.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 271 Even these inconceivable qualities of space..may be made the subject of reasoning.

B. n.

A thing or quality that cannot be conceived.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of

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1706 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ i. 56 Nothing's found in thee But boundless inconceivables, And vast eternity!

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxviii. 373 They confound together these exclusive inconceivables into a single notion.

1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. 63 Inconceivables are incessantly becoming Conceivables as our experience becomes enlarged.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	inconceivable
释义	inconceivableadj.n. /ɪnkənˈsiːvəb(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1700s -ceiveable. Etymology: < in- prefix⁴ + conceivable adj. and n. Compare French inconcevable (1617 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter). A. adj. 1. That cannot be conceived or realized in the imagination; unthinkable, unimaginable, incredible. Often with exaggerative force for ‘hardly credible’, ‘incalculable’, ‘extraordinary’, of things which transcend common experience. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adjective] uncouthc897 unnimlyc1225 incomprehensiblea1340 unsearchablec1384 unknowable?c1400 investigablea1425 uncomprehensiblea1425 unthinkablec1445 imperscrutablec1450 inscrutablec1450 inopinable?a1475 incomprenable1502 unspectable?1504 incogitablec1522 uncogitable1529 impenetrable1531 inimaginable1534 inexplicable1555 unsensible1555 unscrutable1562 unfashionable1563 unpenetrable1581 unexcogitable1592 ineffable1598 inexcogitable1599 indivinable1603 ininvestigable1604 incapable1605 searchless?1606 uncomprehensive1609 unconceivable1611 undivinable1611 unimaginable1611 unexplicable1615 unintelligible1616 unapprehensible?1617 unfathomable1617 imprehensible1622 ununderstandablea1631 indeprehensible1633 indiscernible1635 inscrute1639 inapprehensiblea1641 indiscoverable1640 unexaminable1641 impervestigable1643 fathomless1645 inconceivable1646 indeterminable1646 inexplorable1646 insearchable1647 incomprehended1652 comprehendlessa1654 incomprehensive1656 untraceable1661 uninvestigablea1677 unintelligent1683 incognoscible1691 thought-transcendinga1711 uncognizable1720 acataleptic1727 undescriptive1744 elusive1751 impalpable1781 inaccessible1796 unconjecturable1806 uncognoscible1821 unascertainable1827 unfixable1831 unguessable1832 unrealizable1832 unsurveyable1833 hard-shelled1835 unintellective1837 undeemed1845 graspless1849 unconjectured1850 incognizable1852 ungraspable1853 unreadable1853 super-cerebral1854 elusory1856 trans-conscious1865 intangible1880 uncatchable1892 unspelt1892 unplumbable1895 unknowledgeable1920 indiscutable1933 the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adjective] > unbelievable unlevelyOE untrowablea1382 incredible1412 unbelievedc1425 inopinable?a1475 unbelievable1548 discredible1580 too good to be true1580 incomprehensible1604 incredulousa1616 intestablea1631 inconceivable1646 unpersuasive1651 inconceptiblea1676 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 34 With an inconceivable dexterity and quicknes. 1721 D. Bellamy tr. P. de Mornay Thoughts on Trinity Introd. 3 There can be but one God, and..his Perfections are both infinite and inconceivable. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 310 There were inconceivable quantities of coco-nuts. 1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 222 Light appears to move with a velocity that is truly inconceivable. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1876) II. i. iv. 229 One thing is inconceivable,—that the Turks should, as an existing nation, accept of modern civilization. 2. spec. As a philosophical term.The following distinctions in meaning, though disputed by some, are generally recognized: (a) Opposed to the fundamental laws of thought, self-contradictory, involving a contradiction in terms. (b) Repugnant to recognized axioms or established laws of nature. (c) Involving the dissolution of ideas which have become inseparably linked in the human mind. (d) Involving a combination of facts, which renders a proposition incredible to the ordinary mind. (e) Incapable of being represented by a mental image. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > paradoxical paradoxal1602 paradoxic1632 paradoxical1638 inconceivable1655 schizoid1955 schizophrenic1955 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > to nature, reason, or rule improper1531 preposterous1533 paradoxical1646 inconceivable1754 paradoxal1888 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > of cognition > of an idea or concept > involving the dissolution of inseparable ideas inconceivable1785 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adjective] > not imagined unconceived1434 unhoped1435 unimagined1548 unthoughted1598 undreameda1616 unimaged1648 unfancied1651 unthought1658 inconceivable1829 unbethought1855 the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adjective] > implausible unmaintainablea1631 untenable1650 unsustainable1662 implausiblea1677 intenable1738 untenible1783 inconceivable1865 1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) i. iii. 10 What is inconceivable or contradictious, is nothing at all to us. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iii. 136 The Objection represents a Mystery as a Thing inconceivable..irreconcileable to..Reason. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 305 Power without substance is inconceiveable. 1829 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 202 The Unconditioned is incognisable and inconceivable. 1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. (1872) vi. 86 The first meaning of Inconceivable is, that of which the mind cannot form to itself any representation..the first and most proper meaning. 1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. (1872) vi. 90 This extends the term inconceivable to every combination of facts which..appears incredible. It was in this sense that the Antipodes were inconceivable. 1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. (1872) vi. 93 He [Hamilton] gives to the term a third sense. ‘We conceive a thing only as we think it within or under something else’..The inconceivable in this third sense, is simply the inexplicable. 1872 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. vii. xi. 408 Let me here define..what I mean by inconceivable, as distinguished from incredible or unbelievable. An inconceivable proposition is one of which the terms cannot, by any effort, be brought before consciousness in that relation which the proposition asserts between them. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 271 Even these inconceivable qualities of space..may be made the subject of reasoning. B. n. A thing or quality that cannot be conceived. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of lock1563 incomprehensibility1651 inscrutables1665 incomprehensible1678 inconceivable1706 I know not what1711 unknowable1725 unsearchable1725 indefinable1810 a sealed book1814 unknowable1816 unintelligible1838 inconceivability1851 imponderable1855 inscrutablenessa1864 unfathomability1867 unthinkable1871 closed book1913 intangible1914 imponderabilia1925 generation gap1962 1706 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ i. 56 Nothing's found in thee But boundless inconceivables, And vast eternity! a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxviii. 373 They confound together these exclusive inconceivables into a single notion. 1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. 63 Inconceivables are incessantly becoming Conceivables as our experience becomes enlarged. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1646
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