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incognoscibility | incognoscible | Derived terms |

Incognoscibility is a derived term of incognoscible.


As a noun incognoscibility

is the quality of being incognoscible.

As an adjective incognoscible is

(rare|dated) not capable of being known; incomprehensible.

incognoscibility

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being incognoscible.
  • (Webster 1913)

    incognoscible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare, dated) Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
  • * 1827 , , Rationale of Judicial Evidence , vol. 4, book 8, ch. 18:
  • 6. The state of the law rendered more and more incognoscible . By wrapping up the real dispositions of the law in a covering of nonsense, the knowledge of it is rendered impossible to the bulk of the people.
  • * 1860 , , A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences , Charles Griffin and Co., p. 671:
  • Regarded in this light, the idea of Polarity . . . has nothing to do with the fancy of Terrestrial Magnets, with Hypotheses concerning impalpable and incognoscible Fluids, with Atoms having Poles, or with doctrines concerning Ethereal vibrations.
  • * 1868 , Thomas Skinner, "How Shall We Treat Cholera?", British Medical Journal , vol. 2, p. 235:
  • I freely admit the existence of a poisoned condition of the system from without by an invisible and hitherto incognoscible something.
  • * 1926 , , Reality: A New Correlation of Science and Religion , Macmillan, p. 113:
  • The still small voice of conscience and the sense of beauty are direct messages from the incognoscible Beyond.
  • * 2010 , Constantin Portelli, A Unique God, A Universal Religion , ISBN 9781434983060, p. 6:
  • [W]e agree that certain aspects, which appear in our material world, have their origin from some incognoscible transcendence.

    Synonyms

    * unknowable

    Derived terms

    * incognoscibility

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.