beyond the beyonds
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9.9
- idiom
- Literature
:
más allá de lo imaginable
- Some experiences in nature are beyond the beyonds; they leave us in awe and wonder.
Examples
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The peril for groups like the LCWR is that they are so invested in pushing "beyond the beyond" that they will leave Christianity entirely.
Blog text (2) -
"What we do is beyond the beyond," Mann said.
Blog text (11) -
The concept of time travel is beyond the beyonds of our current understanding of physics.
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Living on another planet seems beyond the beyonds of what we can currently imagine.
Synonyms
14
6.2
So beautiful or moving that you cannot describe it
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6.1
Far more than someone could ever imagine
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4.6
To a very great degree
Much better than you could imagine or hope for
Antonyms
How Imaginable
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3.6
- Literature
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9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
beyond + the + beyonds
The core meaning is built from the known word 'beyond' and the repetition ('beyond the beyonds') functions as an emphatic/metaphorical intensifier, so a learner who knows 'beyond' can infer a sense of being extremely far or unimaginable. However, the creative pluralization and pragmatic intensification are not a standard compositional pattern and require pragmatic inference beyond literal combination, so the exact nuance is not fully predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Beyond the beyonds gives a picture of going past one beyond — the far edge you can imagine — and then going even further into another beyond. That's why it means 'impossible to imagine' or 'far removed from ordinary experience'.