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ineffable adjective amazing, astounding, awesome, beyond expression, beyond words, fearful, great, impossible to describe, impossible to express, inconceivable, incredible, incredibilis, indescribable, inexpressible, infandus, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, nameless, not explainable, not exxressible, not to be spoken, overwhelming, sacred, staggering, strange, terrific, unable to be expressed, unable to be spoken, undefinable, unheard, unimaginable, unmentionable, unnamable, unpronounceable, untranslatable, unutterable Associated concepts: ineffable accident See also: mysterious, sacrosanct, undefinable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Thus to speak of the Holocaust in religious terms--to preach the ineffability of the Event, to invoke the incomprehensibility of the camps, to use all those units of theological language to say what we believe cannot be said and thus to remove it from the mundane--this too is a kind of denial. This individual existence is, in a sense, an ineffability. Shimmer, drift, vacancy, fatigue, ineffability, cruising: The neutral is the space of undogmatic, reposeful, tactful, antiadjectival thinking and dreaming. |
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