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indescribability

noun as in strangeness

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The medical profession, too, has often declared itself frustrated at pain’s indescribability.

With its weird nonhuman figures scuttling around the stage — one is called, aptly enough, the Accordian Man, another looks like a figure from an anime movie crossed with a robot from “Star Wars” — “Kurios” achieves indescribability with ease.

This perception, if we look to its origin, may turn out to be primitive; no doubt the feeling of "crude extensity" is an original sensation; every inference, association, and distinction is a thing that looms up suddenly before the mind, and the nature and actuality of which is a datum of what � to indicate its irresistible immediacy and indescribability � we may well call sense.

But the unembodied Justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!

A snorting sound, which, accompanied by a terrific clatter of old iron and the crunching of road-mendings, had been steadily growing from distant to near, and from loud to deafening, now reached a pitch of utter indescribability; and as a large splay-wheeled, tall-funneled, plowing engine rolled off the Bensley highroad and lumbered in upon the right-of-way, the powerful bouquet of hot lubricating oil nullified all other smells, and the atmosphere became opaque to the point of solidity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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