inconceivable
adjective
not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable
inconceivability
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a word derived from
inconceivable.
Example Sentences
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“Conceivability or inconceivability is a life’s work—it’s not something where you just screw up your head for a second!”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Travis is trying to keep his family, and probably himself, from losing it, and the show needs a true believer to embody the inconceivability of a total collapse of order.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2015
Lulu and Courtney cry at once, but this inconceivability is eclipsed by Clementine, who says, “Can I try on your hat?”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Dr. Whewell held, not that the inconceivability of the contradictory of a proposition is a proof of its truth co-equal with experience, but that its value transcends experience.
From John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors by Henry Fawcett
With this distinction clearly understood, I may now proceed to observe that in everyday life we constantly apply the test of relative inconceivability as a test of truth.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by George John Romanes
