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Meaning of "indescribability" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INDESCRIBABILITY

indescribability  [ˌɪndɪˌskraɪbəˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDESCRIBABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indescribability is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INDESCRIBABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of indescribability in the English dictionary

The definition of indescribability in the dictionary is the quality of being impossible to describe.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDESCRIBABILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDESCRIBABILITY

independent clause
independent jaw chuck
Independent Order of Oddfellows
Independent Order of Rechabites
independent school
independent suspension
Independent Television Commission
independent variable
independently
independently-minded
indescribable
indescribableness
indescribably
indesignate
indestructibility
indestructible
indestructibleness
indestructibly
indetectable
indetectible

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDESCRIBABILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of indescribability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «indescribability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDESCRIBABILITY

Find out the translation of indescribability to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of indescribability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indescribability» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

indescribability
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indescribability
570 millions of speakers

English

indescribability
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

indescribability
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

indescribability
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

indescribability
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indescribability
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

indescribability
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indescriptibilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak dapat dijelaskan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unbeschreiblichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

記述不可能
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

indescribability
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Indescribability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

indescribability
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

indescribability
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिर्बंधता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

indescribability
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indicibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

indescribability
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

indescribability
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

indescribability
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απερίγραπτο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

indescribability
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

indescribability
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

indescribability
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indescribability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDESCRIBABILITY»

The term «indescribability» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.272 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDESCRIBABILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «indescribability» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «indescribability» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indescribability

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDESCRIBABILITY»

Discover the use of indescribability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indescribability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Contribution of Anandabodha to Advaita
A critic of this theory of error may try to refute these arguments of the Advaitin thus : What does the word indescribability (aninvacaniyata)? mean? It cannot be the inability to describe, for, then, it is better to avoid all discussion about it. Nor can it  ...
E. I. Warrier, 1995
2
A Source Book in Indian Philosophy
And freedom from contradiction of the whole seven-mode doctrine is understood from this triad of modes called non-existence, existence, and indescribability, because these three alone are the chief modes and the remaining modes are ...
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Charles A. Moore, 2014
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The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from ...
Although there may be a traditional bias for finite types in language, several indescribability results have sweeping proofs that accommodate stronger modes of expressibility. However, as for the Mahlo hierarchy transfinite types may lead to  ...
Akihiro Kanamori, 2008
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A Guide to Asian Philosophy Classics
Before getting to those chapters, let”s first distinguish between two senses of indescribability—the relative and the absolute. Indescribability in its relative sense, I contend, means that something is indescribable in some qualified way, relative ...
Puqun Li, 2012
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The Quotable Lewis
Indescribability. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, chap. 16, para. 1, p. 83. " Bright blur" is not a very good description. In fact you can't have a good description of anything so vague. If the description became good it would become false.
Jerry Root, Wayne Martindale, 2012
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The Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy: A Study of ...
... jagat (pratyak- chit)} Post-Sharikara Vedantins make it clear that indescribability in Vedanta does not mean 'absolute indescribability' or avachyata , but only indescribability either as real or as unreal or as both, i.e., sadasadanirvachaniyata, ...
Candradhara Śarmā, 1996
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Fine Structure and Class Forcing
When n = 1 there is no difficulty as n,',;-indescribability is the same as E^+i- indescribability. Whereas Proposition 4. 1 7 holds for njj, (and E£ , simultaneously) the author does not know how to establish Proposition 4.16 for njj,-indescribability.
Sy D. Friedman, 2000
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Axiomatic Set Theory
K is A; GHQ-indescribable ifi" it has the A}, (W) R-reflection property for all R. Note that the definition used here of A; (V1,) indescribability does not include being strongly inaccessible. If K is 2“", K is not even A} indescribable, since if ( agnf < K) ...
Dana S. Scott, Thomas J. Jech, 1971
9
Many-Sided Wisdom
Syad-asti-nasti: Existence and Non-Existence ('in some ways, it is, and it is not') 4 . Syad-asti-avaktavyan: Indescribability ('in some ways, it is, and it is indescribable') 5. Syad-nasti-avaktavyan: Existence and Indescribability ('in some ways, it is ...
‎2010
10
Provability, Computability and Reflection
A proof of this statement and other properties equivalent to 1'1,'indescribability can be found in SILVER [I971], Theorem 1.13 (cf. also BOWEN [1972], §2.2). STATEMENT 4.2. ax (x —> (x)2) < p.x (x —> (w)<“') < 1u.x (x —> (x)<“'); in fact, if K ...
Lev D. Beklemishev, 2000

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDESCRIBABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indescribability is used in the context of the following news items.
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YOB: Clearing Space, Digging Deep
Later in the song, his displaced voice muses on reality and its innate indescribability. In the worlds YOB make, the music's solidity pulls against ... «Noisey, Aug 14»
2
Grammar to hammer: Horror writers use every trick from aliens to …
... to write a special passage in it that can be lifted out for readings, and I also should have guarded against this shameful indescribability thing. «The Independent, Mar 14»
3
Tip of the Ice-berg
Both girls looked so thin, they almost acquired indescribability. The Ambassador, driven by a “sarkari” driver with the Saheb ensconced on the ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Nov 13»
4
Critics get a bad rep
... criticism, the language of metaphor becomes a way of speaking to fiction in its own accent, the only way of respecting fiction's indescribability. «Salon, Nov 12»
5
My Take: Give me Bali's empty chair over Eastwood's
It is a shrine to Ida Sanghyang Widhi, the High God to Balinese Hindus. And it symbolizes, among other things, the indescribability of the divine. «CNN, Sep 12»
6
The Blue Man Group paints the town red, as well as yellow, green …
Though surely, the Blue Man Group put on an intriguingly unique and engaging show that is sort of beautiful in its indescribability. How do I ... «Louisville.com, Apr 12»
7
We Live in Holy Saturday
... indescribable vastness of the universe, into the very Inner Sanctum of the Godhead where a multiplex of indescribability WAITS to happen! «America Magazine, Apr 12»
8
A Thousand Substitutions: Reading A "Mourning Diary"
But he is describing it, describing its indescribability, like Blanchot's author, ironically writing about his solitude to a not-yet-realized reader. May 31, 1978: “It's not ... «Bookslut, Dec 10»
9
Death, 'Deathlessness' & Existenz in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy by …
But the indescribability of this subjective state he thought we should aim for poses a serious problem for any effort to give an adequate account of the ... «Philosophy Now, Mar 09»

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