unintelligibility

Roget-categorie 519

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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#519. Unintelligibility

zelfstandig naamwoord

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.
werkwoord
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.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
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.
uitdrukking
it's Greek to me.

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