incomprehensibleness
Beyond all understanding
The quality of being impossible to understand or grasp.
Incomprehensibleness is a rarely used noun form of incomprehensible—most speakers prefer incomprehensibility for the same meaning: The sheer incomprehensibleness of the instructions left everyone confused.
Both words describe something so obscure, complex, or poorly expressed that it defies understanding.
Cannot be understood
- impenetrabilityResistance to penetration
- unfathomabilityImpossibility of being understood
- inscrutabilityImpossible to understand
- opacityImpermeability to light
obscurity · abstruseness · esotericism · arcana · crypticness · inexplicability · nebulosity · turgidity
Something hard to fathom
- inscrutabilityImpossible to understand
- mysteriousnessState of being unexplained
- unfathomablenessBeing beyond understanding
- unknowabilityQuality of eluding understanding
impenetrability · secrecy · hiddenness · ineffability · transcendence · otherworldliness
State of elaborate complexity
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- entanglementState of being intertwined
- labyrinthineExtremely complex and winding
byzantine · knotty · tangled · convoluted · elaborateness · multifaceted · ramified · involuted
State of being baffled
- bafflementMental state of confusion
- perplexityMental state of confusion
- puzzlementState of being baffled
- befuddlementState of utter confusion
disorientation · mystification · confoundment · stupefaction · disconcertment · fluster · daze · fog
Absence of precision
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
- nebulousnessQuality of being indistinct
- equivocationAmbiguous language avoiding commitment
- unclearnessAbsence of clarity
indefiniteness · muddiness · haziness · fuzziness · cloudiness · indistinctness · amorphousness
unintelligibility
Cannot be understood
- impenetrabilityResistance to penetration
- unfathomabilityImpossibility of being understood
- inscrutabilityImpossible to understand
opacity · obscurity · abstruseness · esotericism · arcana · crypticness · inexplicability · nebulosity · turgidity · denseness
enigma
Something hard to fathom
- inscrutabilityImpossible to understand
- mysteriousnessState of being unexplained
- unfathomablenessBeing beyond understanding
unknowability · impenetrability · secrecy · hiddenness · ineffability · transcendence · otherworldliness
intricacy
State of elaborate complexity
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- entanglementState of being intertwined
labyrinthine · byzantine · knotty · tangled · convoluted · elaborateness · multifaceted · ramified · involuted · tortuousness
bewilderment
State of being baffled
- bafflementMental state of confusion
- perplexityMental state of confusion
- puzzlementState of being baffled
befuddlement · disorientation · mystification · confoundment · stupefaction · disconcertment · fluster · daze · fog · haze
vagueness
Absence of precision
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
- nebulousnessQuality of being indistinct
- equivocationAmbiguous language avoiding commitment
unclearness · indefiniteness · muddiness · haziness · fuzziness · cloudiness · indistinctness · amorphousness
incomprehensiblenesscomprehensibility
Clarity of meaning
understandability · intelligibility · fathomability · graspability · accessibility
incomprehensiblenessclearness
Absence of obscurity
lucidness · clarity · lucidity · perspicuity · pellucidity
comprehend, comprehends, comprehended, comprehending, comprehensible, incomprehensible, comprehension, comprehensions, comprehensive