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INSCRUTABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inscrutability mean?
• INSCRUTABILITY (noun)
The noun INSCRUTABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being impossible to investigate
Familiarity information: INSCRUTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being impossible to investigate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the inscrutability of the future
Hypernyms ("inscrutability" is a kind of...):
incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)
Derivation:
inscrutable (of an obscure nature)
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