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Inscrutability — In*scru ta*bil i*ty, n. The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
inscrutability — index complication, mystery, opacity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
inscrutability — inscrutable ► ADJECTIVE ▪ impossible to understand or interpret. DERIVATIVES inscrutability noun inscrutably adverb. ORIGIN Latin inscrutabilis, from in not + scrutari to search … English terms dictionary
inscrutability — noun the quality of being impossible to investigate (Freq. 1) the inscrutability of the future • Derivationally related forms: ↑inscrutable • Hypernyms: ↑incomprehensibility … Useful english dictionary
inscrutability of reference — The doctrine due to Quine that no empirical evidence relevant to interpreting a speaker s utterances can decide among alternative and incompatible ways of assigning referents to the words used; hence there is no fact that the words have one… … Philosophy dictionary
inscrutability — noun see inscrutable … New Collegiate Dictionary
inscrutability — See inscrutable. * * * … Universalium
inscrutability — noun The condition of being inscrutable See Also: inscrutableness, inscrutably … Wiktionary
inscrutability — in·scru·ta·bil·i·ty || ɪn‚skruËtÉ™ bɪlÉ™tɪ n. quality of being incomprehensible, obscureness, mysteriousness … English contemporary dictionary
inscrutability — n. See inscrutableness … New dictionary of synonyms
