indefinability

Examples

• All

• Maybe Ohio, in its stubborn indefinability, really is the whole country.

  Academic text (2001)

• Tarski proves the indefinability of truth using Geddle's result.

  Robinson Erhardt

• The artist's work embodies an indefinability that captivates viewers from all walks of life.

• The concept of love has an indefinability that makes it difficult to discuss in purely rational terms.

Synonyms

E

elusiveness

vsindefinability

3 7.4

Hard to find or understand

focuses on absolute failure to define precisely rather than general difficulty or avoidance

I

ineffability

vsindefinability

9.9

A state of being impossible to fully describe in words

is about being impossible to define exactly rather than just hard to put into words

I

indescribability

vsindefinability

9.8

Something you cannot say in words

focuses on absolute inability to define things precisely rather than mere difficulty

I

indescribableness

vsindefinability

9.9

A state that is impossible or very hard to describe in words

emphasizes true impossibility to define precisely rather than mere difficulty

Antonyms

C

clarity

152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

D

definability

• Specialized

7.3

A quality that lets something be clearly described or explained

How Definable

clarity

152 3.0

ambiguity

57 6.3

vagueness

8 6.1

inexpressibility

8.9

indefinability

9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology