incomprehensibility
Americannoun
plural
incomprehensibilitiesExample Sentences
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Patiently pushing the space between his words canyon-wide, Callahan describes the incomprehensibility of death as it violates the silence of a hospital corridor.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
It’s also about extreme responses to the incomprehensibility of the Holocaust.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021
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 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
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