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unexperienceable 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 experienceable English unexperienceable From un- + experienceable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Incapable of being experienced.
    • It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist. 1912 January 18, W. P. Montague, “The New Realism and the Old”, in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume 9, number 2, page 45:
    • It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites. 2000 Jan, Kevin Schilbrack, “Metaphysics in Dōgen”, in Philosophy East and West, volume 50, number 1, p. 53 n61: