inexplicability
Beyond all understanding
Inexplicability is the quality of being impossible to explain or account for.
The word describes phenomena, events, or behaviors that resist rational understanding: The inexplicability of the disappearance frustrated investigators for decades.
It emphasizes not just difficulty but apparent impossibility of explanation.
Something hard to fathom
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
- riddlePuzzling question to solve
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- paradoxSeemingly absurd truth
sphinx · unknown · unknowable · imponderable · anomaly · cipher · secrets · mystique
State of being baffled
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- puzzlementState of being baffled
- incomprehensionLack of understanding
- bafflementMental state of confusion
perplexity · mystification · disorientation · befuddlement · stupefaction · nonplussed · confoundment · disconcertment
Being impossible to grasp
- unfathomabilityImpossibility of being understood
- inscrutabilityImpossible to understand
- impenetrabilityResistance to penetration
- opacityImpermeability to light
abstruseness · obscurity · intricacy · convolution · indecipherability · unintelligibility · esotericism · recondite
Quality of being peculiar
- uncanninessQuality of being disturbingly strange
- unaccountabilityAbsence of obligation to explain
- unexplainabilityCannot be accounted for
- irrationalityAbsence of logic
illogicality · absurdity · peculiarity · oddness · weirdness · bizarreness · mysteriousness · eerieness
enigma
Something hard to fathom
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
- riddlePuzzling question to solve
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
paradox · sphinx · unknown · unknowable · imponderable · anomaly · cipher · secrets · mystique · occult
bewilderment
State of being baffled
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- puzzlementState of being baffled
- incomprehensionLack of understanding
bafflement · perplexity · mystification · disorientation · befuddlement · stupefaction · nonplussed · confoundment · disconcertment · flummoxed
incomprehensibility
Being impossible to grasp
- unfathomabilityImpossibility of being understood
- inscrutabilityImpossible to understand
- impenetrabilityResistance to penetration
opacity · abstruseness · obscurity · intricacy · convolution · indecipherability · unintelligibility · esotericism · recondite · byzantine
strangeness
Quality of being peculiar
- uncanninessQuality of being disturbingly strange
- unaccountabilityAbsence of obligation to explain
- unexplainabilityCannot be accounted for
irrationality · illogicality · absurdity · peculiarity · oddness · weirdness · bizarreness · mysteriousness · eerieness · otherworldliness
- mysteriousnessenigma, mystique, inscrutability, obscurity, crypticness
inexplicabilityexplicability
Ability to be understood
explainability · comprehensibility · understandability · intelligibility · fathomability
explain, imply, explicit, implicit, implication, inexplicable, explicate, explicable, explication