Inexplicable vs Ineffable - What's the difference?
inexplicable | ineffable |
Beyond expression in words; unspeakable.
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* Gay Watson, Stephen Batchelor, Guy Claxton, The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, science, and our day-to-day lives (2000) p. 100:
Forbidden to be uttered; taboo.
As adjectives the difference between inexplicable and ineffable
is that inexplicable is impossible to explain; not easily accounted for while ineffable is beyond expression in words; unspeakable.inexplicable
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Derived terms
* inexplicability * inexplicableness * inexplicablySynonyms
* unexplainableAntonyms
* explainable * explicableineffable
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Adjective
(-)- Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable .
- As Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable .