inexplicability

American  

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

noun

• inexplicabilities
  plural

1. the state or quality of being inexplicable.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• inexplicabilities
  plural

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inexplicability inexplicabilities

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

Players waited on the court for the game to begin, then inexplicability headed to the locker rooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

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

And yet, in their utter inexplicability, identical twins have helped elucidate our most basic understanding of why, and how, we become who we are.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015

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

Or is the whole business one other of those whimsicalities and perverse inexplicabilities, whereby Herr Teufelsdrockh, meaning much or nothing, is pleased so often to play fast-and-loose with us?

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle

Or is the whole business one other of those whimsicalities and perverse inexplicabilities, whereby Herr Teufelsdröckh, meaning much or nothing, is pleased so often to play fast-and-loose with us?

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle