inscrutability

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being difficult or impossible to understand or interpret

   The witness's calm expression had an unsettling inscrutability.

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of being impossible to investigate

   the inscrutability of the future

3. 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.

4. 4
   noun

   Something that is inscrutable.

   the inscrutabilities of advanced mathematics

From inscrutable + -ity. Inscrutable comes from Late Latin inscrutabilis, 'unsearchable,' formed from in- ('not') + scrutari ('to search or examine').

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