irrepresentableadj.
/ɪrɛprɪˈzɛntəb(ə)l/ Not representable; incapable of representation.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > that cannot be represented
irrepresentable1673
1673 H. More App. Antidote Idolatry 4 To set up such a Symbolical presence..to represent God, who is irrepresentable, as being infinite in Majesty and Greatness.
1676 E. Stillingfleet Def. Disc. Idolatry ii. iii. 740 Gods irrepresentable Nature doth only hold against making impossibilities, that is, perfect Images of God.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xii. 278 They take..the words irrepresentable and impossible in one and the same meaning.
1827 T. De Quincey in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 17 Progressive actions, as such, are irrepresentable by painting.
1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic (ed. 2) xiii. vi. 315 No model whatever of matter per se being presentable to us in knowledge, the material universe per se must for ever remain absolutely irrepresentable by us in thought.
Derivatives
irrepreˈsentableness n.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > quality of being irrepresentable
irrepresentableness1673
1673 H. More App. Antidote Idolatry 28 Whether the doing Divine worship towards the Image of Christ violates the irrepresentableness of the Godhead or no.
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