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" I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people."
Carol Shields

Meaning of "unknowability" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF UNKNOWABILITY

ˌʌnnəʊəˈbɪlɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNKNOWABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unknowability 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNKNOWABILITY

ability · accessibility · accountability · availability · capability · compatibility · disability · durability · eligibility · flexibility · inability · liability · mobility · nobility · possibility · probability · reliability · responsibility · stability · visibility

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNKNOWABILITY

unknightliness · unknightly · unknit · unknitted · unknitting · unknot · unknowable · unknowableness · unknowably · unknowing · unknowingly · unknowingness · unknowledgeable · unknown · unknown country · unknown factor · unknown quantity · Unknown Soldier · Unknown Warrior · unknownness

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNKNOWABILITY

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 unknowability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unknowability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNKNOWABILITY

Find out the translation of unknowability to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of unknowability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unknowability» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

不可知
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

desconocimiento
570 millions of speakers
en

English

unknowability
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

unknowability
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unknowability
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

непознаваемости
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

unknowability
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

unknowability
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

inconnaissabilité
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tidak dapat diketahui
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Unerkennbarkeit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

unknowability
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

unknowability
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Unknowability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unknowability
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

unknowability
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अज्ञानता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

bilinemeyecegi
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

inconoscibilità
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

niepoznawalności
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

непізнаваності
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

unknowability
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unknowability
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unknowability
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ovetbarhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unknowability
5 millions of speakers

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «UNKNOWABILITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unknowability.
1
Ben Marcus
Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
2
Carol Shields
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNKNOWABILITY»

Discover the use of unknowability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unknowability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Unknowability: An Inquiry Into the Limits of Knowledge
This philosophically rich volume examines the limits of human knowledge and considers their implications.
Nicholas Rescher, 2009
2
On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the ...
This book, one of the earliest by Christos Yannaras, was first published in 1967 and has become a contemporary classic.
Christos Yannaras, Andrew Louth, 2005
3
Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice: Brain, Self and Objects
Chapter. 2. Unknowability. and. the. Concept. of. the. Brain. Philosophical. concepts. “Doctrine. of. the. unknowability. of. the. noumenal. mind”: Kant and the mind–brain problem In the previous chapter I demonstrated that Kant and Freud ...
Georg Northoff, 2011
4
Faith, Reason and the Existence of God
and Thomas has no need to rule it out in order to meet Kant's agnostic condition that God could not be 'an object of thought', and the difference between them now turns out to be a difference concerning the nature of the divine unknowability, ...
Denys Turner, 2004
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and ...
8. The. Unknowability. Thesis. But before doing so, we need to set in place an implacably negative and skeptical position, that of the great Polish novelist Stanislaw Lem (1921-), which is however not without its own concomitant ethical  ...
Fredric Jameson, 2005
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Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God
At this level, the task would be to determine the relation between the "absence and unknowability" of God within the classic theological traditions and the " absence and unknowability" of God ensuing from the "death of God." Here one finds at ...
Thomas A. Carlson, 1999
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Kant and Theology at the Boundaries of Reason
On closer inspection however, theological agnosticism seems to slip into logical incoherence under Kant's strictures. How can we take Kant seriously regarding the radical unknowability of all things noumenal and still hold out hope for some ...
Chris L. Firestone, 2009
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Pseudo-Dionysius as Polemicist: The Development and Purpose ...
Chapter 3 The Unknowability of God 3.1 Introduction The Old Testament conception of God was of a single male deity who, unlike other gods at the time, was unknown insofar as he chose to reveal neither his name nor his appearance. 1 ...
Rosemary A. Arthur, 2008
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God's Acting, Man's Acting: Tradition and Philosophy in ...
CHAPTER THREE UNKNOWABILITY OF GOD Unknowability and Ineffability of God Amongst the difÀculties I have mentioned in the previous chapter emerges God's unknowability, viewed in connection with human attempts to know Him.
Francesca Calabi, 2008
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Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, ...
What he demands of God is not that He should make Himself known outside or alongside His unknowability, but in this unknowability ; that He should show Himself a trusted Friend even in His hostility. The astonishing assumption of these ...
Karl Barth, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Thomas Forsyth Torrance, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNKNOWABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unknowability is used in the context of the following news items.
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PayPal dumps MEGA - and Kim Dotcom's not happy
Dotcom's company said that PayPal actually acknowledged that MEGA's business was legitimate, but objected to its end-to-end encryption due to “unknowability ... «Music Business Worldwide, Mar 15»
2
A peek behind the curtain of Neil Gaiman's creative process
Neil Gaiman represents an intriguing outlier to this development though, retaining an air of mystery and unknowability that befits his fantastical writing even as ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
3
​PayPal terminates services to Mega
... but advised that a key concern was that Mega has a unique model with its end-to-end encryption which leads to 'unknowability of what is on the platform'," the ... «ZDNet, Mar 15»
4
Off the beat: A sisterhood rarely seen
Her love for male-male camaraderie stems from its unknowability. That friend has a sister, and she loves her sister, but the fraternal relationships so glorified in ... «Daily Californian, Feb 15»
5
The Missing turned out to be a cop-out
The French lent a class and subtlety to the proceedings and an edge of unknowability which ratcheted up the fear of Tony and Emily Hughes who, just like Gerry ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
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Meghan Daum's Essays Are Tough, Smart, and Wonderful
Confronted with the unknowability of an animal's mind, with a perceived absence of counterfeit, we can't help but “fill it with rainbows and wet furrylicious kisses.”. «Slate Magazine, Dec 14»
7
Vampires and life decisions
Moreover, the problem with these kinds of choices isn't just with the unknowability of your future. Transformative experience cases also raise a distinctive kind of ... «OUPblog, Nov 14»
8
The Boss Can Write. But What Does He Read?
You could feel within them the unknowability of God, the intangible mysteries of life that confounded her characters, and which I find by my side every day. «National Review Online, Oct 14»
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Bruce Springsteen: By the Book
You could feel within them the unknowability of God, the intangible mysteries of life that confounded her characters, and which I find by my side every day. «New York Times, Oct 14»
10
Theatre review: Kafka's meaning twisted into obscurity
It can variously be read as a radical rejection of mundane existence, a metaphor for the unknowability of others, or the alienation of the bourgeois subject. «Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 14»
REFERENCE
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