Meanings
comparative more unconceptualizable · superlative most unconceptualizable
- Not conceptualizable.
1 more example
It is not merely our minds which cannot understand God, nor is it merely our concepts which cannot reach him. No mind could understand His Mystery—so long as we mean by a mind a conceptual intellect—and no concepts could apprehend Him. And this is the same as saying that He is, in His very nature, unconceptualizable, that His Mystery and incomprehensibility are absolute attributes of Him.
1952, W. T. Stace, Time and Eternity, Princeton, N. J., pages 48–49; quoted in William P. Alston, “Ineffability”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 65, number 4, October 1956, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 507–508
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*kap-
- Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
- Proto-Italic*kapjō
- Latincapiō
- Ancient Greekσῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)
- Latinconcipiō
- Latinconceptus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Medieval Latinconceptuālis
- Englishconceptual
- Englishconceptualize
- Englishconceptualizable
- Englishunconceptualizable
From un- + conceptualizable.
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