"indescribability" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1879, Henry Hartshorne, John Russell Reynolds, The Sense of Beauty, H. C. Lea, page 769:",
          "text": "Sensorial changes are by no means uncommon, and they are of every kind, description, and indescribability.",
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          "ref": "1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, Elder Smith, page 119:",
          "text": "These ideas may seem at first sight somewhat startling; but when we realise the extraordinary depth and indescribability of the emotions of music, the very remoteness and far-reachingness of the explanation is in favour of its validity.",
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          "ref": "1896, George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, C. Scribner's Sons, pages 97-98:",
          "text": "This perception, if we look to its origin, may turn out to be primitive; no doubt the feeling of \"crude extensity\" is an original sensation; every inference, association, and distinction is a thing that looms up suddenly before the mind, and the nature and actuality of which is a datum of what — to indicate its irresistible immediacy and indescribability — we may well call sense. Forms are seen, and if we think of the origin of the perception, we may well call this vision a sensation.",
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          "ref": "1910, Thomas Carlyle, The Sense of Beauty, Burt, page 15:",
          "text": "But the unembodied Justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!",
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          "ref": "1919, Edward Nares, Psychological Review 1919-11: Volume 26, Issue 6, American Psychological Association, page 426:",
          "text": "The featurelessness of the affective quality, on the other hand, its indescribability, is due to the very simplicity of its relation to the organism.",
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          "ref": "1992, H. M. Vroom, “Can Religious Experience Be Shared?”, in J. D. Gort et al., editors, On Sharing Religious Experience, Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "This emphasis on the indescribability of God in intense religious experience is consistently found in the more mystical religious traditions.",
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          "text": "The clothed embodied justice that sits in Westminster Hall, with penalties, parchments, tipstaves, is very visible. But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!",
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        "(countable) Something which cannot be described."
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        },
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          "text": "This perception, if we look to its origin, may turn out to be primitive; no doubt the feeling of \"crude extensity\" is an original sensation; every inference, association, and distinction is a thing that looms up suddenly before the mind, and the nature and actuality of which is a datum of what — to indicate its irresistible immediacy and indescribability — we may well call sense. Forms are seen, and if we think of the origin of the perception, we may well call this vision a sensation.",
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          "text": "The clothed embodied justice that sits in Westminster Hall, with penalties, parchments, tipstaves, is very visible. But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!",
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