inconceivableness

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inconceivableness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Inconceivable \In`con*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
     conceivable: cf. F. inconcevable.]
     Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind;
     not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known
     principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is
     inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular
     motion.
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           It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance
           should represent an extended figure.     --Locke.
     -- In`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*ceiv"a*bly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any
           subject to possess it.                   --A. Tucker.
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inconceivableness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  inconceivableness
      n 1: the state of being impossible to conceive [syn:
           inconceivability, inconceivableness]