Definition of incomprehensibility in
English:
incomprehensibility
NOUN
See incomprehensible
Definition of incomprehensible in
English:
incomprehensible
ADJECTIVE
Not able to be understood; not intelligible.
Origin
Late Middle
English (earlier than comprehensible): from Latin incomprehensibilis, from in- ‘not’ + comprehensibilis
Pronunciation
incomprehensible
/ˌinˌkämprəˈhensəb(ə)l/ /ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l/
Pronunciation
incomprehensibility
/ˌinˌkämprəˌhensəˈbilədē/ /ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˌhɛnsəˈbɪlədi/
Incomprehensibilitiy (ˌinˌkämprəˌhensəˈbilədē/ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˌhɛnsəˈbɪlədi)
‘It can't: it is crammed with lovers packed in
tight, the details
smashed flat, extraneous facts shorn away to save space, mangled and compressed to the point of incomprehensibility and all beyond counting or collating.’
‘This article gives some idea of the incomprehensibility of such an event in Japan, where the discovery of a live
bullet in someone's luggage at the airport is national news.’
‘
Marriage is the theme, in all its incomprehensibility, its difficulty and its infinite gentle understandings.’
‘The result turned out to be so
hard to understand that the novel acquired an aura of profundity by virtue of its sheer incomprehensibility.’
Incomprehensible (ˌinˌkämprəˈhensəb(ə)l/ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l)
‘This story from the St Albans Observer is completely incomprehensible.’
‘Confusing films may be in vogue, but confusing does NOT
equal incomprehensible.’
‘Spoken entirely in Latin and Aramaic, it is contrived, opaque and incomprehensible.’
‘What seems perfectly reasonable for one
person is completely incomprehensible for another.’
Incomprehensibilitiy (ˌinˌkämprəˌhensəˈbilədē/ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˌhɛnsəˈbɪlədi) & Incomprehensible (ˌinˌkämprəˈhensəb(ə)l/ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l)