inapprehensible

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Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Unapprehen′sible, inapprehensible; Unapprehen′sive, not apprehensive or fearful: not intelligent.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Of the universal Aeons there are two shoots, without beginning or end, springing from one Root, which is the Power invisible, inapprehensible Silence.

From Simon Magus by Mead, George Robert Stow

By reason of this last it was inapprehensible to him that there could be an objection to the sexes co-operating indiscriminately in work. 

From The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage by Wright, Almroth

Not merely, therefore, is the phenomenon inexplicable to you, but the very nature of it is inapprehensible by you.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George