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inconceivableness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inconceivable \In`con*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + conceivable: cf F. inconcevable.] Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion. It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance should represent an extended figure. --Locke. -- {In`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`con*ceiv"a*bly}, adv The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any subject to possess it --A. Tucker. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inconceivableness n : the state of being impossible to conceive [syn: {inconceivability}]
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