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unnameable

American  
[uhn-naym-uh-buhl] / ˌʌnˈneɪm ə bəl /
Or unnamable

adjective

  1. too vague or mysterious to be identified or referred to by a name; not identifiable.

  2. not allowed to be referred to by name.


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This is sushi that makes one feel overwhelming, unnameable, deep feelings, jettisoning mere thoughts way overboard.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

And there is plenty of beauty in the play’s abstractions; at its heart “Epiphany” is a love letter to the indefinable and unnameable.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Linguists Nicole Kruspe, at Lund University in Sweden, and Asifa Majid, at the Netherlands' Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, say that, for millennia, Western scholars dismissed scents as unknowable, or at least unnameable.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2018

At Time, Stephanie Zacharek said, “‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ captures the essence of all sorts of youthful desires, both those that are easily identifiable and the more aching, unnameable kind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2016

Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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