unexplicability

plural unexplicabilities

1. countablerareuncountableRare form of inexplicability.

   He penetrated into the unexplicabilities of antiquarian research in Central America, and donated several curious specimens to the London Museum.

   1900 December 15, “A[lfred] E[dward] Morgans, M.L.A.”, in The W.A. Record, volume XXV, number 1055, Perth, W.A., →OCLC, “The Record Pictorial” section, “Biographical Sketches of the Members of the Legislative Assembly”, column 3

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   News from Bendigo is meagre and unsatisfactory, dealing chiefly in assertions, and leaving facts to take care of themselves. Sandy Creek is described as a likely spot, but as yet little or nothing has been done there. Daisy Hill and Mount Korong still retain there unexplicability.

   1853 May 12, “The Aspect of the Diggings”, in Tasmanian Colonist. […], volume III, number 187, Hobart Town, Tas., →OCLC, “Colonial” section, page [3], column 4

   To conceive of the star-shaped snow crystal as a (natural) miracle, and one that comes from above, is tantamount to admitting the impossibility of its rational explanation and thus suggests the preprogrammed failure of [René] Descartes’ project. What else constitutes a miracle if not its utter and absolute unexplicability?

   2007, Andrea Dortmann, “The Poets’ View […]”, in Winter Facets: Traces and Tropes of the Cold (Studies in Modern German Literature; 104), Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, “Flakes II” section, page 78