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inscrutableness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of inscrutableness

1 the quality or state of being impossible to know, understand, or explain
  • It's the sheer inscrutableness of the lady's smile that has tantalized art lovers for centuries.
Synonyms of inscrutableness

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

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 inscrutableness

intelligibility, understandability

clarity, obviousness, plainness, self-evidence, straightforwardness, transparency
2 the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
  • The inscrutableness of the inscriptions left by the doomed colonists of Roanoke Island has inspired many theories concerning their fate.
Synonyms of inscrutableness

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

mystery, reconditeness

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

impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness

deepness, depth, profoundness
Near Antonyms of inscrutableness

comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility

brightness, distinctness, self-evidence

certainty, surety

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

directness, forthrightness, straightforwardness
Antonyms of inscrutableness

clarity, clearness, obviousness, plainness

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