incommunicable
[in-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-buh l]
- incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- not communicative; taciturn.
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Origin of incommunicable
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Contemporary Examples
The incommunicable thrill of things, that is the tuning-fork by which we test the flatness of our art.
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Historical Examples
Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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Men burthened with great sorrows know them to be incommunicable.
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It was something unique, peculiar to himself and incommunicable.
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Each experience was solitary, unique, it had its own incommunicable quality.
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The perception of this harmony is their only and incommunicable proof.
Robert FalconerGeorge MacDonald
incommunicable
- incapable of being communicated
- an obsolete word for incommunicative
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Word Origin and History for incommunicable
adj.
1560s, "not communicative," from in- (1) "not" + communicable. Sense of "not able to be communicated" first recorded 1570s. Related: Incommunicably.
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