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Definition of incommunicable in English: incommunicableadjective ɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkəb(ə)lˌɪnkəˈmjunəkəb(ə)l Not able to be communicated to others. 不可言传的 the pain of separation took the form of an incommunicable depression 分离的痛苦表现为一种不可言传的抑郁。 Example sentencesExamples - HIV / Aids is the cause of incommunicable pain.
- He gave Russell the sense that he really knew something incommunicable, that there was something he was trying to get at that Russell was not seeing it.
- Focusing on any one man, it seems that his movements follow no rule other than that of his own incommunicable fear, spinning around on his toes, moment to moment, looking to make someone a target before he becomes one himself.
- But mostly, that which is most personal is most common, not most subjective, esoteric, incommunicable and unique.
- Suicide often provokes the rhetorical impasse here encountered; the sign is clear but incommunicable.
- However, when for whatever reason the loss is incommunicable, words no longer function to fill the void, and the mourner strives to deny loss through the implementation of ‘incorporation.’
- There is such a thing, then, as incommunicable knowledge, knowledge that comes only by experience and by association.
- As long as Waffle confines his performances to the privacy of his den, he will surprise himself with an experience that is as enriching for him as it is incommunicable to others (though his immediate family might get a kick out of it).
- Such incommunicable pasts, such fragile homes for memory, bear witness to the irony of destiny, showing it to be a story formed after the fact, a ‘predetermined’ road with an endless ability to change its very face.
- Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
- Alive, but with no capacity for self-expression, their mode of perception is incommunicable.
- He writes of ‘simulacrum’ as the ‘of something that is incommunicable in itself or unrepresentable: literally the phantasm in its obsessional constraint.’
- ‘A work of art is the expression of an incommunicable reality that one tries to communicate - and which sometimes can be communicated,’ he wrote.
- They are impersonal, capable of communication to other men in similar states, and are generalised: they are no longer private and incommunicable.
- In his incommunicable world of silence, made the more sordid by isolation and discrimination, he find himself the butt of everybody's abuse and insult.
- What is subjective is in itself incommunicable.
- It is clear that liberty is a communicable power because it does not entail such incommunicable qualities as total causal independence and self-existence.
- Notice that a similar strategy defeats any attempt to argue for the abiding worry that can affect our attitudes to patients in a persistent vegetative state, where we worry about an enduring presence incommunicable to ‘us outside.’
- The father is a Gnostic madman, a collector and domestic demi-god, confecting a private universe incommunicable to all but himself (like so many fathers!)
- It's the ‘qualia’ or whatever the word is - the thing that's incommunicable through words.
Synonyms indescribable, inexpressible, unutterable, unspeakable, undefinable, ineffable, beyond words, beyond description overwhelming, intense, profound
Derivativesnoun ɪnkəmjuːnɪkəˈbɪlɪti Never mind that, undaunted by the hobgoblin of consistency, they also argue the incommunicability of knowledge. Example sentencesExamples - For theologians like Aquinas and Maimonides and many others past and present, the very essence of God is his incommunicability.
- What condemns Godardian cinema in the last analysis is its own incommunicability.
- ‘First of all, we must believe in the unspeakable incommunicability of the trauma,’ she said.
- Her poignant sounds fuel her husband's overblown images, forming an increasingly overheated circuit of baroque incommunicability that can only result in violence.
nounˌɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkəblnəsˌɪnkəˈmjunəkəb(ə)lnəs Academics on their behalf are troubled by the incommunicableness with students and the inability to provide teaching material or other information. Example sentencesExamples - In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language.
adverb ˌɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkəbliˌɪnkəˈmjunəkəbli In this sense, human persons belong to themselves and to no other. They are incommunicably their own and never mere specimens or means. Example sentencesExamples - Our feelings must find their own registers, perhaps incommunicably; each, re-seeing Mouchette, will recognize the tractor-driver in his own way.
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense 'incommunicative'): from late Latin incommunicabilis 'not to be imparted', from in- 'not' + communicabilis (see communicable). Definition of incommunicable in US English: incommunicableadjectiveˌinkəˈmyo͞onəkəb(ə)lˌɪnkəˈmjunəkəb(ə)l Not able to be communicated to others. 不可言传的 the pain of separation took the form of an incommunicable depression 分离的痛苦表现为一种不可言传的抑郁。 Example sentencesExamples - He writes of ‘simulacrum’ as the ‘of something that is incommunicable in itself or unrepresentable: literally the phantasm in its obsessional constraint.’
- Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
- However, when for whatever reason the loss is incommunicable, words no longer function to fill the void, and the mourner strives to deny loss through the implementation of ‘incorporation.’
- What is subjective is in itself incommunicable.
- Suicide often provokes the rhetorical impasse here encountered; the sign is clear but incommunicable.
- Alive, but with no capacity for self-expression, their mode of perception is incommunicable.
- Such incommunicable pasts, such fragile homes for memory, bear witness to the irony of destiny, showing it to be a story formed after the fact, a ‘predetermined’ road with an endless ability to change its very face.
- There is such a thing, then, as incommunicable knowledge, knowledge that comes only by experience and by association.
- HIV / Aids is the cause of incommunicable pain.
- As long as Waffle confines his performances to the privacy of his den, he will surprise himself with an experience that is as enriching for him as it is incommunicable to others (though his immediate family might get a kick out of it).
- It's the ‘qualia’ or whatever the word is - the thing that's incommunicable through words.
- The father is a Gnostic madman, a collector and domestic demi-god, confecting a private universe incommunicable to all but himself (like so many fathers!)
- Notice that a similar strategy defeats any attempt to argue for the abiding worry that can affect our attitudes to patients in a persistent vegetative state, where we worry about an enduring presence incommunicable to ‘us outside.’
- ‘A work of art is the expression of an incommunicable reality that one tries to communicate - and which sometimes can be communicated,’ he wrote.
- In his incommunicable world of silence, made the more sordid by isolation and discrimination, he find himself the butt of everybody's abuse and insult.
- They are impersonal, capable of communication to other men in similar states, and are generalised: they are no longer private and incommunicable.
- He gave Russell the sense that he really knew something incommunicable, that there was something he was trying to get at that Russell was not seeing it.
- It is clear that liberty is a communicable power because it does not entail such incommunicable qualities as total causal independence and self-existence.
- But mostly, that which is most personal is most common, not most subjective, esoteric, incommunicable and unique.
- Focusing on any one man, it seems that his movements follow no rule other than that of his own incommunicable fear, spinning around on his toes, moment to moment, looking to make someone a target before he becomes one himself.
Synonyms indescribable, inexpressible, unutterable, unspeakable, undefinable, ineffable, beyond words, beyond description
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense ‘incommunicative’): from late Latin incommunicabilis ‘not to be imparted’, from in- ‘not’ + communicabilis (see communicable). |