unintelligible
adjective
not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
unintelligibleness
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a word derived from
unintelligible.
Example Sentences
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His adjectives always embarrassed her: their unintelligibleness savored of impropriety.
From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton
But their main resource probably was in the obscurity, almost amounting to unintelligibleness, of their responses.
From Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
The obscurity or unintelligibleness," he says, "of one part of a prophecy does not in any degree invalidate the proof of foresight, arising from the appearing completion of those other parts which are understood.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
For the unintelligibleness; give this whole song to any taught singer, and let her sing it to any company that have never heard it; you shall find they will not understand three words in ten.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
Now this fine subtilty is a consequence of their putting bodies into a body, and so likewise is the unintelligibleness of the manner how one is contained in the other.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
