unknowable

IPA: ʌnnˈoʊʌbʌɫ

noun

  • Something that cannot be known.

adjective

  • Not knowable; not able to be known.
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Examples of "unknowable" in Sentences

  • I like how this method provides structure while allowing the story to shoot off in unknowable directions.
  • I like the Buddhist view on this – that wasting the present for pondering teh unknowable is a waste of the present.
  • The characters, including Cromwell, remain unknowable, their emotions closely guarded; this works well for court intrigues, less so for fiction.
  • It is simply unknowable from the polls who has momentum, if anyone, and whether Kerry is ahead by a few points or behind by a few points --- because the race is close.
  • None of us could have known what it would be like (yes, Bub, unknowable is exactly the right word) – distracted by shiny things or not – and most of us understood that from the beginning.
  • Otherwise this unknowable is not only compatible with knowledge but is the efficacity of knowledge, perhaps of all possible knowledge, assuming the world is like this (as opposed to the Blakean world).
  • Most decidedly, this is not artificial life (though I hasten to add that there is nothing mystical or long-term unknowable about components of living cells and organisms, including the eventual ability to tweak them).

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