Incomprehensible vs Arcane - What's the difference?
incomprehensible | arcane | Related terms |
Impossible or very difficult to understand.
* Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
* Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
Incomprehensible is a related term of arcane.
As adjectives the difference between incomprehensible and arcane
is that incomprehensible is incomprehensible while arcane is understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.incomprehensible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'
- But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note "and I have finished writing this," which is included within the dream.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane' knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.