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

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

He seemed to be passing through the universe of ideas like a comet—erratic, inapprehensible, untraceable.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

Many other things are doubtless implied in infinity which, if we noticed them, would leave us quite cold; and still others, no doubt, are inapprehensible with our sort and degree of intellect.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George

To painting, again, belongs the play of feature, indicative of internal movement, through a whole gamut of modulations inapprehensible by sculpture.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington