unnamable
Americanadjective
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Haring couldn’t change the way people stared at single Black mothers, and she couldn’t heal whatever unnamable pain had plagued the woman who died.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2021
None of that dispels the cloud of unnamable dread that travels around with me every waking moment of every day, and sometimes invades my dreams: I don't know whether I'll ever see her again.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2021
I noticed an unnamable tension on the ferry ride back from Savai’i.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2020
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
The song filled each child with a bewitched, unnamable feeling; the same feeling that drove men into battle.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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