unimaginability en · NOUN
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 imaginability English unimaginability From un- + imaginability.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) The quality of being unimaginable.
For such propositions unimaginability looks like a function of a kind of conceptual impossibility.
2008 January 11, Cain Samuel Todd, “Imaginability, morality, and fictional truth: dissolving the puzzle of ‘imaginative resistance’”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 187–211:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unimaginabilities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (7)
pl niewyobrażalność (quality of being unimaginable) · de Unvorstellbarkeit (quality of being unimaginable) · it inimmaginabilità (quality of being unimaginable) · fi kuvittelemattomuus (quality of being unimaginable) · ro neimaginabilitate (quality of being unimaginable) · hu elképzelhetetlenség (quality of being unimaginable) · ro inimaginabilitate (quality of being unimaginable)