Meanings
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noun
the quality of being difficult or impossible to understand or interpret
The witness's calm expression had an unsettling inscrutability.
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2
noun
the quality of being impossible to investigate
the inscrutability of the future
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3
noun
The condition of being inscrutable
What about Mrs. Cavendish? I watched her as she sat at the head of the table, graceful, composed, enigmatic. In her soft grey frock, with white ruffles at the wrists falling over her slender hands, she looked very beautiful. When she chose, however, her face could be sphinx-like in its inscrutability.
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4
noun
Something that is inscrutable.
the inscrutabilities of advanced mathematics
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Etymology
From inscrutable + -ity. Inscrutable comes from Late Latin inscrutabilis, 'unsearchable,' formed from in- ('not') + scrutari ('to search or examine').