non-understandability

See also: nonunderstandability

English

Alternative forms

• nonunderstandability

Noun

non-understandability (uncountable)

1. The quality of being nonunderstandable.
   • 1964, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, page 384:

     In later chapters Jaspers shows considerable awareness that the understandability or non-understandability of psychopathological behavior and experience is a relative matter.

   • 1965, Current Musicology, page 89:

     Adorno claims that very often the non-understandability of the listeners is willfully confirmed by non-understandable performances (1959d:66).

   • 1965, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, page 160:

     At common law these contracts were enforceable in equity, absent fraud, misrepresentation, and non-understandability of their force and effect.

Synonyms

• incomprehensibility
• incomprehensibleness
• un-understandability
• un-understandableness