uniˈmaginable, a. and n.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. adj. Incapable of being imagined; inconceivable, incomprehensible.
| 1611 Cotgr., Inimaginable, vnimaginable, vnconceiuable. a 1631 Donne Serm. i. (1634) 30 Miserable, unexpressible, unimaginable, macerable condition, where [etc.]. 1655 H. More App. Antid. vii. 377 It is utterly unimaginable, but that there should be a Triangular distance in the midst of them. 1746 Hervey Medit., Refl. Flower Garden 42 With what un-imaginable Complacency, does Justice rest satisfied! 1821 Scott Kenilw. vi, I shall thank him more for the love that has created such an unimaginable paradise, than for all the wonders it contains! 1878 P. Bayne Purit. Rev. i. 7 To believe in an unseen and unimaginable Spirit. |
2. n. pl. = inexpressible n. 2.
| 1833 T. Hamilton Men & Manners (1843) 391 The men..rejoiced in snuff-coloured waistcoats and unimaginables. |
Hence uniˈmaginableness.
| 1659 H. More Immort. Soul i. vi. 37 The unimaginableness of Points and smallest Particles. 1871 W. G. Ward Ess. Philos. Theism (1884) I. 17 That the unimaginableness of a proposition is incompatible with its truth. |