Usually means: Cannot be expressed in words.
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  1. ineffability: Merriam-Webster
  2. ineffability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ineffability: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ineffability: Wordnik
  5. ineffability: Wiktionary
  6. Ineffability, ineffability: Dictionary.com
  7. Ineffability: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Ineffability: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. ineffability: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Ineffability: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. ineffability: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Ineffability: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ineffability: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ineffability)

▸ noun:  The quality or state of being ineffable.

Similar:
inexpressibility, indefinability, ineffaceability, infrangibleness, unfathomability, inexpiableness, incalculability, undefinability, imperceivableness, immensurability, more...

Opposite:
expressibility, communicability, articulacy

Types:
indescribable, unspeakable, inexpressible, unutterable, unpronounceable, more...

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Similar:
inexpressibility, indefinability, ineffaceability, infrangibleness, unfathomability, inexpiableness, incalculability, undefinability, imperceivableness, immensurability, more...

Opposite:
expressibility, communicability, articulacy

Types:
indescribable, unspeakable, inexpressible, unutterable, unpronounceable, more...



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