unintelligibility
Roget category 519
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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Unintelligibility
noun
unintelligibility —
incomprehensibility,
imperspicuity† —
inconceivableness,
vagueness
etc.
adj. —
obscurity —
ambiguity
etc.
520 —
doubtful meaning —
uncertainty
etc.
475 —
perplexity
etc.
(confusion)
59 —
spinosity† —
obscurum per obscurius [Lat.] —
mystification
etc.
(concealment)
528 —
latency
etc.
526 —
transcendentalism.
paradox,
oxymoron —
riddle,
enigma,
puzzle
etc.
(secret)
533 —
diagnus vindice nodus [Lat.] —
sealed book —
steganography†,
freemasonry.
pons asinorum [Lat.],
asses' bridge —
high Dutch,
Greek,
Hebrew —
jargon
etc.
(unmeaning)
517.
verb
be unintelligible
etc.
adj. —
require explanation
etc.
522 —
have a doubtful meaning,
pass comprehension.
render unintelligible
etc.
adj. —
conceal
etc.
528 —
darken
etc.
421 —
confuse
etc.
(derange)
61 —
perplex
etc.
(bewilder)
475.
not understand
etc.
518 —
lose,
lose the clue —
miss —
not know what to make of,
be able to make nothing of,
give it up —
not be able to account for,
not be able to make either head or tail of —
be at sea
etc.
(uncertain)
475 —
wonder
etc.
870 —
see through a glass darkly
etc.
(ignorance)
491.
not understand one another —
play at cross purposes
etc.
(misinterpret)
523.
adjective
unintelligible,
unaccountable,
undecipherable,
undiscoverable,
unknowable,
unfathomable —
incognizable†,
inexplicable,
inscrutable —
inapprehensible†,
incomprehensible —
insolvable†,
insoluble —
impenetrable.
illegible,
as Greek to one,
unexplained,
paradoxical —
enigmatic,
enigmatical,
puzzling
(secret)
533 —
indecipherable.
obscure,
dark,
muddy,
clear as mud,
seen through a mist,
dim,
nebulous,
shrouded in mystery —
opaque,
dense —
undiscernible
etc.
(invisible)
447† —
misty
etc.
(opaque)
426 —
hidden
etc.
528 —
latent
etc.
526.
indefinite,
garbled
etc.
(indistinct)
447 —
perplexed
etc.
(confused)
59 —
undetermined,
vague,
loose,
ambiguous —
mysterious —
mystic,
mystical —
acroamatic†,
acroamatical† —
metempirical —
transcendental —
occult,
recondite,
abstruse,
crabbed.
inconceivable,
inconceptible† —
searchless† —
above comprehension,
beyond comprehension,
past comprehension —
beyond one's depth —
unconceived.
inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable.
phrase
it's Greek to me.
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