inconceivable
adjective
not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable
inconceivableness
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a word derived from
inconceivable.
Example Sentences
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An unfair way which some men take with themselves: who, because of the inconceivableness of something they find in one, throw themselves violently into the contrary hypothesis, though altogether as unintelligible to an unbiassed understanding.
From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke
The utter unexpectedness, improbability, and inconceivableness of such an event robbed this vague declaration of all its effect.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
Unintelligibility -- N. unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity†; inconceivableness, vagueness &c. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Will it really be contended that the inconceivableness of the thing, in such circumstances, proves any thing against the experimental origin of the conviction?
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
But he differs from me "widely as to the worth of the test of inconceivableness."
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by John Stuart Mill
