non-understandability

alternative nonunderstandability

1. uncountableThe quality of being nonunderstandable.

   Adorno claims that very often the non-understandability of the listeners is willfully confirmed by non-understandable performances (1959d:66).

   1965, Current Musicology, page 89

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   In later chapters Jaspers shows considerable awareness that the understandability or non-understandability of psychopathological behavior and experience is a relative matter.

   1964, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, page 384

   At common law these contracts were enforceable in equity, absent fraud, misrepresentation, and non-understandability of their force and effect.

   1965, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, page 160

   Synonyms: incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness, un-understandability, un-understandableness