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Definition of Inconceivability
1. Noun. The state of being impossible to conceive.
Generic synonyms: Impossibility, Impossibleness
Derivative terms: Inconceivable, Inconceivable
Definition of Inconceivability
1. n. The quality of being inconceivable; inconceivableness.
Definition of Inconceivability
1. Noun. The quality of being inconceivable. ¹
2. Noun. Something inconceivable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconceivability
Literary usage of Inconceivability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1900)
"belief admits of Objective facts are ever impressing themselves upon To this I
answer, first, that it is by no means true that the inconceivability, by us, ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1891)
"HAS SPENCER'S DOCTRINE OF inconceivability DRIVEN RELIGION INTO THE UNKNOWABLE/
BY REV. ... inconceivability ..."
3. Body and Mind; a History and a Defence of Animism by William McDougall (1920)
"These two principal arguments are that from the law of the conservation of energy,
and that from the inconceivability of psycho-physical interaction. ..."
4. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington by Philosophical Society of Washington (1881)
"How masterful is fact in the presence of the most intricate mental subtleties.
The ball leaves the bat, in spite of the inconceivability. ..."
5. The New Rationalism: The Development of a Constructive Realism Upon the by Edward Gleason Spaulding (1918)
"The inconceivability of the Opposite 5 Almost the entire characterization and
criticism that has just been made of the criterion of self-evidence holds also ..."
6. Darwin and Hegel: With Other Philosophical Studies by David George Ritchie (1893)
"In the case of more complex subjects the inconceivability of the opposite remains
rather the ideal to which our knowledge approximates. ..."
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