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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unsurmisable 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 surmisable English unsurmisable From un- + surmisable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Unable to be surmised.
    • The noncoincidence of time, an expression of temporalizing differentiality, draws us into an unsurmisable, incalculable relationship with the world that, quite mysteriously, maintains a fine line of continuity. 2005, Gray Kocchar-Lindgren, Technologics: Ghosts, The Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation, SUNY Press, P. 192: