Synonyms of inscrutability

inscrutability

noun

1

as in mysteriousness

the quality or state of being impossible to know, understand, or explain

the inscrutability of divine intentions is something that people of faith usually just accept

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mysteriousness
• ambiguity
• impenetrability
• uncanniness
• obscurity
• darkness
• vagueness
• profundity
• inscrutableness
• murkiness
• incomprehensibility
• numinousness
• unintelligibility
• equivocality
• inexplicability
• deepness
• unknowability
• shadowiness
• abstruseness
• equivocalness
• esotericism
• unintelligibleness
• inexplicableness
• unanswerability
• hermetism
• abstrusity
• reconditeness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• intelligibility
• understandability
• clarity
• transparency
• obviousness
• straightforwardness
• plainness
• self-evidence

2

as in ambiguity

the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning

the inscrutability of the notations in the ledger—who, for example, was the recipient of "gift to X" ?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ambiguity
• ambiguousness
• mysteriousness
• mystery
• uncertainty
• opaqueness
• obliqueness
• nebulousness
• murkiness
• opacity
• complexity
• obliquity
• obscurity
• nebulosity
• equivocation
• darkness
• vagueness
• equivocalness
• impenetrability
• inscrutableness
• incomprehensibility
• indistinctness
• indefiniteness
• dimness
• depth
• fuzziness
• mistiness
• haziness
• indirectness
• cloudiness
• fogginess
• faintness
• obtuseness
• profoundness
• abstruseness
• difficulty
• circuity
• reconditeness
• shadow
• complication
• shade
• deepness
• incomprehensibleness
• circuitousness
• abstrusity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clarity
• clearness
• obviousness
• plainness
• intelligibility
• certainty
• brightness
• comprehensibility
• legibility
• distinctness
• surety
• exactness
• definiteness
• directness
• openness
• lucidity
• incision
• incisiveness
• explicitness
• perspicuity
• straightforwardness
• visibility
• forthrightness
• self-evidence
• readability
• tangibility
• obviousness
• lucidness
• palpability
• perspicuousness
• tangibleness
• readableness