unexplicability

English

Etymology

From unexplic(able) +‎ -ability.

Noun

unexplicability (countable and uncountable, plural unexplicabilities)

  1. Rare form of inexplicability.
    • 1853 May 12, “The Aspect of the Diggings”, in Tasmanian Colonist. […], volume III, number 187, Hobart Town, Tas., →OCLC, “Colonial” section, page [3], column 4:
      News from Bendigo is meagre and unsatisfactory, dealing chiefly in assertions, and leaving facts to take care of themselves. Sandy Creek is described as a likely spot, but as yet little or nothing has been done there. Daisy Hill and Mount Korong still retain there unexplicability.
    • 1900 December 15, “A[lfred] E[dward] Morgans, M.L.A.”, in The W.A. Record, volume XXV, number 1055, Perth, W.A., →OCLC, “The Record Pictorial” section, “Biographical Sketches of the Members of the Legislative Assembly”, column 3:
      He penetrated into the unexplicabilities of antiquarian research in Central America, and donated several curious specimens to the London Museum.
    • 2007, Andrea Dortmann, “The Poets’ View […]”, in Winter Facets: Traces and Tropes of the Cold (Studies in Modern German Literature; 104), Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, “Flakes II” section, page 78:
      To conceive of the star-shaped snow crystal as a (natural) miracle, and one that comes from above, is tantamount to admitting the impossibility of its rational explanation and thus suggests the preprogrammed failure of [René] Descartes’ project. What else constitutes a miracle if not its utter and absolute unexplicability?
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unexplicability.
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