imponderable
Cannot be weighed
Something imponderable cannot be precisely evaluated or measured.
The word usually appears as a noun for factors that resist calculation: The imponderables of war make victory uncertain.
A coach might cite team chemistry or momentum as imponderables—real forces that defy quantification.
The word acknowledges that some influences matter deeply yet escape our ability to weigh them.
Something hard to fathom
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
- riddlePuzzling question to solve
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
unfathomable · inscrutable · inexplicable · paradox · unknown · uncertainty · ambiguity · secrets
Not physically present
- immaterialLacking physical form; unimportant
- nonphysicalNot of matter
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- metaphysicalBeyond the material realm
transcendent · conceptual · theoretical · speculative · elusive · esoteric · insubstantial · nonmaterial
Philosophy of existence's nature
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
consciousness · soul · infinity · eternity · meaning · teleology · dualism · phenomenology
Having zero mass
- weightlessnessAbsence of apparent mass
- levitationUnsupported aerial suspension
- buoyancyFluid's upward resistance
- zero-gInformal term for weightlessness
enigma
Something hard to fathom
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
- riddlePuzzling question to solve
puzzle · unfathomable · inscrutable · inexplicable · paradox · unknown · uncertainty · ambiguity · secrets · sphinx
intangible
Not physically present
- immaterialLacking physical form; unimportant
- nonphysicalNot of matter
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
metaphysical · transcendent · conceptual · theoretical · speculative · elusive · esoteric · insubstantial · nonmaterial · incorporeal
metaphysics
Philosophy of existence's nature
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
free will · consciousness · soul · infinity · eternity · meaning · teleology · dualism · phenomenology · qualia
massless
Having zero mass
- weightlessnessAbsence of apparent mass
- levitationUnsupported aerial suspension
- buoyancyFluid's upward resistance
- IM- wordsimmature, immobile, immune, immerse, immoral
- obsolete sciencephlogiston, aether, phlogiston theory, ether, caloric
imponderablemeasurable
Able to be gauged
calculable · quantifiable · ponderable · weighable · assessable
imponderableknowable
Able to be grasped
comprehensible · fathomable · ascertainable · discernible · understandable