inexpressibility

Examples

• All

• It testifies to the figurative inadequacy and inexpressibility before the terrifying abyss and reveals the impossible task of recuperating in words the horror beyond language.

  Academic text (1997)

• His feelings of loss were steeped in inexpressibility, leaving him searching for words that could never quite capture his grief.

• Assuming this "logic of inconsistency," the problem of impossibility becomes one of inexpressibility.

  Academic text (1995)

• It is common in writings on spirituality to find the trope of ineffability or inexpressibility.

  Academic text (2015)

• The artist's work conveyed a sense of inexpressibility that spoke volumes without the need for verbal explanation.

Synonyms

I

indescribability

vsinexpressibility

9.8

Something you cannot say in words

is the same meaning but uses a different noun form

I

indescribableness

vsinexpressibility

9.9

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

is the same meaning but is a different stylistic noun form

I

inexpressiveness

vsinexpressibility

8.9

Hard to describe in words

is identical in sense but uses an alternative noun ending

I

ineffability

vsinexpressibility

9.9

A state of being impossible to fully describe in words

is about being impossible or very hard to express in words

I

incommunicability

vsinexpressibility

9.9

Being unable to tell or share feelings with other people

concerns difficulty of expression rather than failure to reach others

U

unspeakability

vsinexpressibility

9.6

A feeling or event too terrible to describe in words

means inability to express without the sense of being too terrible

I

indefinability

vsinexpressibility

9.9

A state where you cannot describe something exactly

focuses on difficulty of expression rather than precise definition

Antonyms

E

expressivity

1 6.9

How clearly and strongly someone shows thoughts or feelings

How Expressible

expressiveness

2 4.1

expressible

1 5.3

clarity

152 3.0

indescribability

9.8

ineffability

9.9

inexpressibility

8.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology