unknowable

comparative more unknowable · superlative most unknowable

1. Not knowable; not able to be known.

   Number fourteen: Some of the things you need to know are things that are unknowable.

   2004, George Carlin, “NINETY-NINE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39

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   The mascot for the manosphere, Andrew Tate, believes that women belong at home, are a man’s property, and shouldn’t be able to drive. And an unknowable amount of young men are following this rhetoric through sites like Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube. But once they fall down the rabbit hole of the manosphere, is there any getting out?

   2024 November 20, Fortesa Latifi, “How These Men Left the Manosphere — and Why Some May Never”, in Teen Vogue

   Synonyms: unintelligible, abstruse, Chinese, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, bottomless, Greek · Antonyms: knowable, apprehensible, clear, limpid, comprehensible, explainable, explicable, explicatable

plural unknowables

1. Something that cannot be known.

   That night I think of other unknowables. How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps.

   2010, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, self-published, page 138