inexplicable
adjective
not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
inexplicableness
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a word derived from
inexplicable.
Example Sentences
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The irregular, variable character of his visitor tended to heighten them, by producing an appearance of inexplicableness and mystery.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
The inexplicableness of human action always amuses me; the inexplicable is romance, at least that is the only way I can understand romance.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
The explanation of that which is explicable does but bring out into greater clearness the inexplicableness of that which remains behind....
From Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan
It was a vulnerable spot which made the day-nursery just a little uneasy at dusk—this and the cistern cupboard with its dark boomings and hammerings and clankings and utter inexplicableness.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
There was always, to me at least, an inexplicableness about such reprisals that mitigated against their moral issue.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
