incomprehensibleness

incomprehensibleness

A student stares at a page of incomprehensibleness.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • The quality of being impossible to understand: "incomprehensibleness" refers to the state or condition of something that cannot be comprehended or grasped by the mind.
    • Unintelligibility: It denotes the characteristic of being obscure, confusing, or beyond the scope of ordinary understanding.
Usage Examples
  • (The manuscript was impossible to understand.)
  • (Her speech was extremely difficult to understand.)
  • (The subject is difficult to grasp.)
Advanced Usage

  • "to be of incomprehensibleness": to possess the quality of being beyond understanding.

    • The theory was of such incomprehensibleness that it required years of study to even begin to approach. (The theory was extremely difficult to understand.)

  • "an air of incomprehensibleness": a perceived quality of being obscure or mysterious.

    • The artist cultivated an air of incomprehensibleness in his work, inviting endless interpretation. (The artist made his work deliberately hard to understand.)
Variants and Related Words

  • Incomprehensible (adj): impossible to understand.

    • The instructions were incomprehensible to the new employees. (The instructions could not be understood.)

  • Incomprehensibly (adv): in a way that is impossible to understand.

    • He spoke incomprehensibly, mumbling and using jargon. (He spoke in a way that could not be understood.)

  • Incomprehensibility (n): a synonym for incomprehensibleness, meaning the quality of being impossible to understand.

    • The incomprehensibility of the text led to many different interpretations. (The text was very hard to understand.)
Synonyms
  • Unintelligibility: the quality of being impossible to understand.
  • Obscurity: the state of being unclear or difficult to perceive.
  • Abstruseness: the quality of being difficult to understand because of complexity.
Related Idioms

  • Beyond one's ken: outside the range of one's knowledge or understanding.

    • The mathematics of string theory is beyond my ken. (It is incomprehensible to me.)

  • Greek to me: something that is impossible to understand.

    • All these legal documents are Greek to me. (They are incomprehensible to me.)