Meanings
noununimaginability (usually uncountable, plural unimaginabilities)
plural unimaginabilities
- uncountableusuallyhuman sciencesThe quality of being unimaginable.
For such propositions unimaginability looks like a function of a kind of conceptual impossibility.
2008 January 11, Cain Samuel Todd, “Imaginability, morality, and fictional truth: dissolving the puzzle of ‘imaginative resistance’”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 187–211Synonyms: unimaginableness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being unimaginable.
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishimaginability
- Englishunimaginability
From un- + imaginability.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish kuvittelemattomuus
- kuvittelemattomuusquality of being unimaginable
German Unvorstellbarkeit
- Unvorstellbarkeitquality of being unimaginable
Hungarian elképzelhetetlenség
- elképzelhetetlenségquality of being unimaginable
Italian inimmaginabilità
- inimmaginabilitàquality of being unimaginable
Polish niewyobrażalność
- niewyobrażalnośćquality of being unimaginable
Romanian neimaginabilitate, inimaginabilitate
- neimaginabilitatequality of being unimaginable
- inimaginabilitatequality of being unimaginable
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