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inscrutability

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of inscrutability

1 the quality or state of being impossible to know, understand, or explain
  • The inscrutability of divine intentions is something that people of faith usually just accept.
Synonyms of inscrutability

impenetrability, inscrutableness, mysteriousness, obscurity, uncanniness
Words Related to inscrutability

deepness, profundity

darkness, murkiness, obscurity, shadowiness, vagueness

ambiguity, equivocality, equivocalness

incomprehensibility, unintelligibility, unintelligibleness

inexplicability, inexplicableness

unanswerability

unknowability

abstruseness, abstrusity, esotericism, hermetism, reconditeness
Near Antonyms of inscrutability

intelligibility, understandability

clarity, obviousness, plainness, self-evidence, straightforwardness, transparency
2 the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
  • the inscrutability of the notations in the ledger—who, for example, was the recipient of "gift to X"?
Synonyms of inscrutability

ambiguity, ambiguousness, darkness, equivocalness, equivocation, inscrutableness, murkiness, mysteriousness, nebulosity, nebulousness, obliqueness, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness
Words Related to inscrutability

mystery, reconditeness

cloudiness, dimness, faintness, fogginess, fuzziness, haziness, indefiniteness, indistinctness, mistiness, shade, shadow, uncertainty, vagueness

impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness

deepness, depth, profoundness
Near Antonyms of inscrutability

comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility

brightness, distinctness, self-evidence

certainty, surety

definiteness, exactness, explicitness, incision, incisiveness, lucidity, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness

directness, forthrightness, straightforwardness
Antonyms of inscrutability

clarity, clearness, obviousness, plainness

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