unknowability

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Recent Examples of unknowability Instead, what makes the triptych of thematically connected snapshots memorable is its deftly unfussy observation of the unknowability that can endure among people who share the same bloodlines. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025 The unknowability of life is beautiful, but so too is our desire to know. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknowability
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
  • That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Patches of unintelligibility are nothing new in Pynchon, but usually a coherent world view gleams upward from the murk.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The book is padded full of the thin, present-tense prose beloved of young writers, who mistake its vagueness for urgency.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the political specificity of the family history unearthed here, the script presumes a level of profundity that’s just not there in the movie’s ponderous silences and woozy montages.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Lockwood says she’s often asked about her ability to toggle literary voice on a dime, ricocheting, like an elementary school PhD candidate, between potty humor and profundity.
    Eric Olson September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification.
    Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Many technological challenges abound in the murkiness of natural language chatting.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Five Yankees used the bat, but the hubbub has since faded into obscurity.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But all signs suggest the leadership should remove Norvell before the boos get louder, before donations get smaller, and before this season fades into obscurity.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Unknowability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowability. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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