incomprehensibility
Americannoun
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incomprehensibilities
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In other words, the incomprehensibility of space-time can feel small and Monday night can last forever.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
She has said that the shock and fear and resignation created by this incomprehensibility are at the core of her writing.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2020
The regional accents used here can be thick to the point of incomprehensibility.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
The new season has some of this same incomprehensibility, but a relatively small amount.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2019
I rejoice still in the comfort of its incomprehensibility.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Some of the complexities, paradoxes and incomprehensibilities of Iranian behavior are hard to grasp, even for those with an understanding of the events covered in this book.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2013
The terrifying incomprehensibilities which were worshiped elsewhere, and the fear some spirits with which earth, air and sea swarmed, were banned from Greece.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The singer's topical allusions, sly incomprehensibilities, he flung about him like bombs that burst in an unfailing roar of delight among his shipmates.
From A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus
And in spite of your liberal thorns and maddening incomprehensibilities, you can always put homesickness to flight.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Either I am greatly mistaken or these two alleged incomprehensibilities are ended altogether by my solutions.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
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