- a variation of unnameable.
unnamable
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Berkeley’s other work channels the spirit of artists he profiles, finding that pinpoint between what a work is and the invisible, unnamable forces, including near-misses that brought it into being.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025
It is to make sense of what we just saw; to simplify an inchoate and unnamable experience into something we can carry with us.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2018
Other, newer emotions are unnamable: “There was no specific word for the feeling one had of simultaneous stagnation and mutation.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
Tim Burton’s earlier Batman movies may have seemed lighter on the surface, but they were more deeply infused with sadness, of an almost unnamable kind.
From Time ● Aug. 2, 2016
I do not search Mexican graveyards for ties to unnamable ancestors.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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