ununderstandableness

See also: un-understandableness

English

Noun

ununderstandableness (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of un-understandableness
   • 1908, U[na] L[ucy] Silberrad, chapter XIII, in Desire, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 195:

     For the first time Desire felt that there was something about Peter which reminded her of the slow inevitableness and ununderstandableness of the ways of nature.

   • 1968, R[eginald] H[orace] Blyth, Haiku: Summer-Autumn, page 358:

     Those particular threads in that particular pattern, matter extended in space in that particular formless form, the utter ununderstandableness of it all,—is felt as a counterpart to the meaningful meaninglessness of the passage of time.

   • 1975, Michael Slote, “Inapplicable Concepts and Sexual Perversion”, in Robert Baker, Frederick Elliston, editors, Philosophy & Sex, Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, section “The Logic of Deviation”, page 262:

     Finally, it would seem that unnaturalness does not consist in incomprehensibility or ununderstandableness, in any straightforward way.