unconveyable

Cannot be communicated

Unable to be expressed or communicated to another person.

Some experiences resist translation into words—grief, mystical states, the particular quality of a memory.

What is unconveyable remains locked in private experience: The unconveyable strangeness of the dream faded as I tried to describe it.

Also spelled inconveyable.

ineffable

indescribable

Cannot be put into words

nameless · beyond words · mystical · transcendent · sublime · numinous · profound · unfathomable · imponderable · incomprehensible

incommunicable

wordless

Lacking spoken content

silent · unspoken · tacit · implicit · nonverbal · untranslatable · private · personal · subjective · internal

abstract

intangible

Not physically present

metaphysical · insubstantial · incorporeal · impalpable · formless · nebulous · amorphous · theoretical · notional · ideational

Opposites
communicability

unconveyableconveyable

Capable of transmission

communicable · expressible · transmittable · describable · articulable

Family

convey, conveyance, conveyed, conveyor, conveying, conveyable, unconveyed

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G