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Noun Concept
Categories: Religious philosophical concepts
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ineffability  indescribability  indescribableness  indescribably  ineffableness
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The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. Open English WordNet
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The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. Open English WordNet
Ineffability is the quality of something that surpasses the capacity of language to express it, often being in the form of a taboo or incomprehensible term. Wikipedia
Something that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words Wikidata
In a manner that cannot be expressed or described with words. OmegaWiki
The condition of not being expressible or describable with words. OmegaWiki
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Here, humility and prayer are connected directly to Evagrius' apophatic reflection and are subsumed in the indescribability of God's being. Open English WordNet
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indefiniteness
quality
Open English WordNet
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indescribableness, indescribability
Wikipedia
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ineffability
Wikidata
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Ineffability
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indescribability, indescribableness, indescribably, ineffability, ineffableness, ineffably, inexpressibility, inexpressibleness, inexpressibly, undescribability, undescribableness, undescribably, unspeakability, unspeakableness, unspeakably, unutterability, unutterableness, unutterably
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Ineffabilism, ineffable, Ineffably

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