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And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life.—Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022 In a way, Tiffany’s rendering of fandom as specific and incommunicable risks undermining her premise, which has to do with the massed power of people online.—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 June 2022 After more than a decade away, the author is back with Piranesi, a way to communicate the incommunicable.—Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020 What surprised me was the poetic potential of scurvy, with its awfulness and that terrible sense of isolation, when the possibility of ecstatic delights was inconceivable and incommunicable.—National Geographic, 15 Jan. 2017
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Etymology
Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French, from Late Latin incommunicabilis, from Latin in- + Late Latin communicabilis communicable
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