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INCOMPREHENSIBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being incomprehensible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("incomprehensibility" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incomprehensibility"):
inscrutability (the quality of being impossible to investigate)
illegibility (the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered)
impenetrability; impenetrableness (incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand)
noise (incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks)
opacity; opaqueness (incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning)
abstruseness; obscureness; obscurity; reconditeness (the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand)
unintelligibility (incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible)
unclearness (incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear)
Antonym:
comprehensibility (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)
Derivation:
incomprehensible (difficult to understand)
incomprehensible (incapable of being explained or accounted for)
