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incommunicable /ɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkəb(ə)l /adjectiveNot able to be communicated to others: the pain of separation took the form of an incommunicable depression...- Notice that a similar strategy defeats any attempt to argue for the abiding worry that can affect our attitudes to patients in a persistent vegetative state, where we worry about an enduring presence incommunicable to ‘us outside.’
- It is clear that liberty is a communicable power because it does not entail such incommunicable qualities as total causal independence and self-existence.
- ‘A work of art is the expression of an incommunicable reality that one tries to communicate - and which sometimes can be communicated,’ he wrote.
Synonyms indescribable, inexpressible, unutterable, unspeakable, undefinable, ineffable, beyond words, beyond description; overwhelming, intense, profound Derivatives incommunicability /ɪnkəmjuːnɪkəˈbɪlɪti/ noun ...- ‘First of all, we must believe in the unspeakable incommunicability of the trauma,’ she said.
- Never mind that, undaunted by the hobgoblin of consistency, they also argue the incommunicability of knowledge.
- Her poignant sounds fuel her husband's overblown images, forming an increasingly overheated circuit of baroque incommunicability that can only result in violence.
incommunicableness /ˌɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkəblnəs / noun ...- Academics on their behalf are troubled by the incommunicableness with students and the inability to provide teaching material or other information.
- In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language.
incommunicably /ˌɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkəbli / adverb ...- Our feelings must find their own registers, perhaps incommunicably; each, re-seeing Mouchette, will recognize the tractor-driver in his own way.
- In this sense, human persons belong to themselves and to no other. They are incommunicably their own and never mere specimens or means.
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'incommunicative'): from late Latin incommunicabilis 'not to be imparted', from in- 'not' + communicabilis (see communicable). |