unknowable
adjective
not knowable; incapable of being known or understood.
unknowableness
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a word derived from
unknowable.
Example Sentences
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“Embracing some unknowableness is part of it,” Green said.
From Slate ● May 12, 2023
Not only does the paucity of fact open up spaces in which the novelist can operate with greater freedom, but Morgan has turned our lack of knowledge into a quality of unknowableness in his protagonist.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2012
Thus "Democracy" takes place mostly amid carefully manipulated shadows, the appropriate element for a work that considers the ultimate unknowableness of the private souls within public figures.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2012
It demonstrates the unknowableness of someone else's marriage and its strangeness even to the individuals in it.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
A very obvious criticism of number one is in affirming a consciousness of an "Unknowable," its quality of unknowableness is annihilated.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen
