Definition of Inscrutability

1. Noun. The quality of being impossible to investigate. "The inscrutability of the future"

Generic synonyms: Incomprehensibility
Derivative terms: Inscrutable

Definition of Inscrutability

1. n. The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.

Definition of Inscrutability

1. Noun. The condition of being inscrutable ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inscrutability

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inscrutability

inscriptible
inscriptio
inscriptio tendinea
inscription
inscriptional
inscriptionally
inscriptionist
inscriptionists
inscriptions
inscriptive
inscriptively
inscroll
inscrolled
inscrolling
inscrolls
inscrutability (current term)
inscrutable
inscrutableness
inscrutables
inscrutably
insculp
insculped
insculping
insculps
insculpt
insculption
insculptions
insculpture
insculptured
insculptures

Literary usage of Inscrutability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"CHAPTER XVI LUDENDORFF: THE MYSTERY MAN Hindenburg's right band man—Ludendorff plans and Hindenburg decides—His inscrutability—Has never been ..."

2. Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia: Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland by Frederick Courteney Selous (1896)
"Native woman gives information of the murder of whites—Natives run off with the cattle—Murder of three miners— inscrutability of the Kafir mind—Matabele ..."

3. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Churchby Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"THE inscrutability OF GOD'S FREE PURPOSES. But now, since we are now treating of the gift of perseverance, why is it that aid is afforded to the person ..."

4. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Churchby Augustine, John Chrysostom by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1887)
"... He would rather deliver the children of His worshippers than the children of His enemies. CHAP. 32 [XIII.]—THE inscrutability OF GOD'S FREE PURPOSES. ..."

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