inexplicability

American  

[in-ik-splik-uh-bil-i-tee, in-ek-splik-] / ˌɪn ɪkˈsplɪk ə bɪl ɪ ti, ɪnˈɛk splɪk- /

noun

plural

inexplicabilities

1. the state or quality of being inexplicable.

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Example Sentences

After all, we travel for the same reason we read: to remind ourselves of the existence, and also the inexplicability, of other lives, to recognize ourselves within that which is foreign to us.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

Then, a month later, his pontificate was over — the shortest reign since the early 1600s — and the Catholic world was left to make sense of the inexplicability.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

From the annals of inexplicability: A pristine In-N-Out burger somehow appeared on the ground in Queens, at least 1,500 miles from the nearest outpost of the beloved West Coast burger chain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2019

I’d prefer to have it all, that is, to feel good about life, embrace it in all its flawed inexplicability, and also to keep trying to figure it out.

From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2018

Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen