unknowableness
State of incomprehensibility
The quality of being beyond knowledge or comprehension.
Unknowableness suggests not merely that something is currently unknown, but that it lies permanently outside the reach of human understanding: the unknowableness of death, the unknowableness of God's nature.
The word appears mostly in philosophical and theological contexts.
Something unexplained or unknown
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- riddlePuzzling question to solve
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
- paradoxSeemingly absurd truth
inexplicability · bafflement · mystique · anomaly · cipher · sphinx · labyrinthine · unsolvable
Being impossible to grasp
- inscrutabilityImpossible to understand
- unfathomabilityImpossibility of being understood
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
- imponderableBeyond estimation or measure
insoluble · epistemology · agnosticism · skepticism · transcendental · ineffability · absoluteness · metaphysics
Resistance to penetration
- opacityImpermeability to light
- abstrusenessDifficult to understand
- arcanaEsoteric specialized knowledge
- esotericAccessible to few
cryptic · inscrutable · veiled · hidden · shrouded · obscure · opaque · impenetrable
Absence of precision
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
- complexityState of being complicated
- intricacyState of elaborate complexity
- perplexityMental state of confusion
depth · profoundness · murkiness · haziness · uncertainty · indeterminateness · equivocality · nebulosity
Cannot be physically felt
- immaterialityAbsence of physical form
- formlessnessLacking definite shape
- insubstantialityAbsence of physical substance
- impalpabilityInability to be touched
ethereality · nonphysical · indefinability · amorphousness · incorporeality · indistinctness · shapelessness · boundlessness
mystery
Something unexplained or unknown
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- riddlePuzzling question to solve
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
paradox · inexplicability · bafflement · mystique · anomaly · cipher · sphinx · labyrinthine · unsolvable · unanswerable
incomprehensibility
Being impossible to grasp
- inscrutabilityImpossible to understand
- unfathomabilityImpossibility of being understood
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
imponderable · insoluble · epistemology · agnosticism · skepticism · transcendental · ineffability · absoluteness · metaphysics · ontology
impenetrability
Resistance to penetration
- opacityImpermeability to light
- abstrusenessDifficult to understand
- arcanaEsoteric specialized knowledge
esoteric · cryptic · inscrutable · veiled · hidden · shrouded · obscure · opaque · impenetrable · abstruse
vagueness
Absence of precision
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
- complexityState of being complicated
- intricacyState of elaborate complexity
perplexity · depth · profoundness · murkiness · haziness · uncertainty · indeterminateness · equivocality · nebulosity · convolution
intangibility
Cannot be physically felt
- immaterialityAbsence of physical form
- formlessnessLacking definite shape
- insubstantialityAbsence of physical substance
impalpability · ethereality · nonphysical · indefinability · amorphousness · incorporeality · indistinctness · shapelessness · boundlessness · nebulousness
unknowablenessknowability
State of being comprehensible
knowableness · knowable · verifiability · comprehensibility · discoverability
unknowablenessclarity
State of being understandable
obviousness · transparency · self-evidence · plainness · lucidity
unknowablenesscomprehensibility
Clarity of meaning
intelligibility · understandability · fathomability · graspability · explicability
know, knowledge, knowing, unknown, acknowledge, knowingly, knowledgeable, unknowing, unknowable