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Unknowable vs Incomprehensible - What's the difference?

unknowable | incomprehensible |

As adjectives the difference between unknowable and incomprehensible

is that unknowable is not knowable while incomprehensible is impossible or very difficult to understand.

As a noun unknowable

is something that cannot be known.

unknowable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not knowable.

    • Antonyms

    * knowable

    Related terms

    * unknowability

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be known.

    • incomprehensible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible or very difficult to understand.
  • * Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
    • 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.'
  • * Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
    • 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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