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indefinable

adj

Etymology

From in- + definable.

  1. derived from dēfīniō — “limit, settle, define”
  2. derived from definer
  3. inherited from definen
  4. suffixed as definable — “define + able”
  5. prefixed as indefinable — “in + definable”

Definitions

  1. That which cannot be precisely defined or put into words.

    • They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.

  2. That which defies description

    That which defies description; indescribable.

  3. Anything that cannot be defined.

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Derived

indefinableness, indefinably

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for indefinable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA