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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English beholdable English unbeholdable From un- + beholdable.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not beholdable; unable to be beheld.
This enormous ring of ordinary environments dwarfs the conventional centralized city. Its scale alone resists easy comprehension, and its spatial indeterminacy intensifies the effect of encountering the unbeholdable
2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19: