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unenterable en · ADJ

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 enterable English unenterable From un- + enterable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That cannot be entered.
    • There is no aesthetic distance here separating actors from audience and placing the depicted events in an unenterable world of illusion... 1973, Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: