INCOMPREHENSIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incomprehensibility mean? 

• INCOMPREHENSIBILITY (noun)
  The noun INCOMPREHENSIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being incomprehensible

  Familiarity information: INCOMPREHENSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOMPREHENSIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being incomprehensible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("incomprehensibility" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incomprehensibility"):

inscrutability (the quality of being impossible to investigate)

illegibility (the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered)

impenetrability; impenetrableness (incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand)

noise (incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks)

opacity; opaqueness (incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning)

abstruseness; obscureness; obscurity; reconditeness (the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand)

unintelligibility (incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible)

unclearness (incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear)

Antonym:

comprehensibility (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)

Derivation:

incomprehensible (difficult to understand)

incomprehensible (incapable of being explained or accounted for)

 Context examples 

Then he laughed about her, and asked me if I had ever seen such a fierce little piece of incomprehensibility.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Why he had done it, what could have provoked him to such a breach of hospitality, and so suddenly turned all his partial regard for their daughter into actual ill will, was a matter which they were at least as far from divining as Catherine herself; but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man, grew enough for all their indignation and wonder; though Sarah indeed still indulged in the sweets of incomprehensibility, exclaiming and conjecturing with youthful ardour.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)