inexplicableness

noun

as in inexplicability

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  1. unintelligibility
  2. incomprehensibility
  3. ambiguity
Noun
  • Breen’s films are a curious blend of unintelligibility and over-explication.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of unintelligibility
Noun
  • This was only the start of the incomprehensibility of this segment.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This incomprehensibility was in no small part due to the way Turing had incorporated the conventions of the tape reader into the system software.
    — Alan Turing, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2017
Definition of incomprehensibility
Noun
  • Most of the incidents in the series are verifiable, though when there’s ambiguity, Watkins tends to lean into the legend — as with the famous incident involving Cassius and the casting of his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The human acted as a contextual filter, quietly absorbing data ambiguity.
    — Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of ambiguity
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“Inexplicableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexplicableness. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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