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incompreˈhensibleness [f. prec. + -ness.] The quality of being incomprehensible: = incomprehensibility (in senses 1 and 2).
1611Cotgr, Incomprehensibilité, Incomprehensibleness. 1622Donne Serm. i. 3 The Incomprehensibleness of Man's Sin. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §72. 317 It implieth Gods incomprehensiblenesse, immutability, and all sufficiency. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T., 1 Cor. viii. 2 If they knew God, or any of his Works, they would know their Incomprehensibleness. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §21 (1875) 67 He realizes..the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered in itself. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such i. 19 [They] recite to me examples of feminine incomprehensibleness as typified in their wives. |