irreconcilable
adjective
incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible.
irreconcilability
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a word derived from
irreconcilable.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps more compelling than either, Ross suggests, is the irreconcilability of the problem.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2020
To understand the irreconcilability of these two impulses, consider a helmet-cam video two years ago of a fireman in Fresno, Calif., saving a kitten trapped inside a smoke-filled home.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015
Never content to answer with a tactful "No comment", Ray's younger brother has always been ready to hold forth concerning the reasons for their irreconcilability.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2014
It is this innate irreconcilability of pitch that, through the centuries, has driven men mad.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2010
But to the younger generation the irreconcilability of modern scholarship and medieval formulae of faith became more and more evident.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
