unknowability

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un- +‎ knowability

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unknowability (countable and uncountable, plural unknowabilities)

  1. The quality or state of being unknowable.
    • 2007 June 24, Tina Brown, “Couples”, in New York Times[1]:
      At the end of her book we feel we know these couples as intimately as if we were part of their circle, but the ultimate nature of each relationship is left inviolate in its unknowability.

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