Meaning of unknowable in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  3. Qualitative Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    unknowable

    Definitions

    1. beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding

    Examples

    • « philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself...- W.P.Alston »
    • « the unknowable »

    Synonyms

  2. Qualitative Adjective

    unknowable

    Definitions

    1. not knowable

    Antonyms

Famous quotes

  • « 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. »
    Michael Sheen
  • « Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. »
    Leonard Bernstein
  • « Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. »
    Ambrose Bierce
  • « If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. »
    Leo Strauss

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