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Definition of Ineffability
1. n. The quality or state of being ineffable; ineffableness; unspeakableness.
Definition of Ineffability
1. Noun. The quality or state of being ineffable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ineffability
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineffability
Literary usage of Ineffability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thrice-greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis by Hermes (1906)
"[OF THE ineffability OF GOD] (I have added the title, the excerpt not being found
in Patrizzi. ... ineffability ..."
2. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning: A Study in Human Freedom by Solomon Francis Gingerich (1911)
"The result of this intense excitation of the mind is to produce two qualities of
mysticism, namely, the noetic quality and the quality of ineffability. ..."
3. The Consciousness of Communion with God: A Study in the Psychology of Religion by Gilbert Lee Pennock (1919)
"It is characterized by the marks of mystical states of consciousness as given by
James: ineffability, noetic quality, transiency, and passivity. ..."
4. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"ineffability. — The handiest of the marks by which I classify a state of mind as
mystical is negative. The subject of it immediately says that it defies ..."
5. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... up trying to say anything adequate about them, and to take refuge in wild and
whirling words which but confess our impotence before their ineffability. ..."
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