单词 | unmistakability |
释义 | unmistakabilityn. The quality of being unmistakable.In quot. 1857: an unmistakable thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [noun] apparency1604 self-evidence1652 self-evidentism1825 unmistakability1857 1857 N. P. Willis Paul Fane xviii. 214 As long as such a male unmistakability as a man's hat with eyes under it was looking right at me, I could never take off my shoulder-straps. 1864 Brit. Controversialist 3rd Ser. 136 A knowledge, piety, sagacity, sensibility, and imaginative grandeur, which go right to the mark with the unmistakability of an instinct. 1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 13 It matters only if another writer should arise who..will take advantage of some of Henry James's explorations and use them in order to increase his own unmistakability. 1972 Daily Tel. 19 May (Colour Suppl.) 41/3 One thing all [these villages] possess..is unmistakeability. 2006 Independent (Nexis) 4 Mar. 11 Her [sc. Naomi Campbell's] continuing unmistakability as one of the most preternaturally gorgeous Amazonians of her generation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1857 |
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