ineffable
adjective
incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible.
ineffability
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a word derived from
ineffable.
Example Sentences
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“It is a great play because, by the end, Tom Stoppard touches ineffability, just as his heroine touches genius.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025
If anything, it explains why we’ve spent a decade trying to frame Kelela’s cool ineffability as some kind of unknowable futurism — and on the D.C.-born singer’s fabulous new album, “Raven,” tah-dah, tomorrow is here.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
The result had the ineffability of experimental theater yet the ingratiating gusto of showbiz, full of cross-eyed expressions and flirtations with the audience.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
In “Be With,” he is at once adamant about the ineffability of grief and committed to getting his inchoate “grief-sounds” somehow into words.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
He declared he all but fainted in the double ineffability of his bliss.
From The Martian by George Du Maurier
