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non-understandability en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being nonunderstandable.
    • Adorno claims that very often the non-understandability of the listeners is willfully confirmed by non-understandable performances (1959d:66). 1965, Current Musicology, page 89:
    • At common law these contracts were enforceable in equity, absent fraud, misrepresentation, and non-understandability of their force and effect. 1965, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, page 160:
    • In later chapters Jaspers shows considerable awareness that the understandability or non-understandability of psychopathological behavior and experience is a relative matter. 1964, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, page 384:

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Synonyms

un-understandability · incomprehensibility · incomprehensibleness · un-understandableness