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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Jacob’s written notes for Laufer were incredibly detailed and imaginative yet also showed the ineffability of the music he’d imagined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
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
His ineffability, his eternity, and his sovereignty and independent subsistence, upon whom all other things depend.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
