unanswerability

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unanswerability
Noun
  • As a result, the impenetrability of EU bureaucracies will continue to limit the United States’ ability to restructure transatlantic economic relations.
    JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • This may be Riley’s attempt to portray the insularity and impenetrability of Ruth’s community, a faith so particular that even the reader is denied access to it.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Whether or not Alice lived happily ever after, Gertrude seems to have done so, at least once her devils were banished by inscrutability.
    Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Théodore Pellerin is a force of abstract inscrutability as Matthew, a character whose true motivations are always kept just out of frame.
    Michael Cuby, Them., 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For the most part my efforts at sculpting a musical identity were fueled by an esotericism that disdained common and easily accessible genres.
    Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • None of this is a problem in and of itself, but a little esotericism goes a long way — and Gallardo isn’t exactly of the opinion that less is more in that department.
    Michael Nordine, Variety, 14 Feb. 2022
Noun
  • That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Any unexplained death leaves room for competing narratives, but Scott’s death involved a particularly vexing set of ambiguities.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Mendoza rose out of recruiting obscurity.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Their relative obscurity may have also been an advantage.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Unanswerability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unanswerability. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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