unknowability

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknowability
Noun
  • Played with gruff impenetrability and a thinly veiled sadistic streak by David Shih, this big dog’s name is Mitsuo, but no one uses names in the heya — only ranks.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
  • But the impenetrability of where this story is going, and the dwindling numbers of who will survive by the end of it, are diminishing shadows that glow.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Consider the way the universe was formed, the majesty of towering mountain peaks, how blood moves through the body, how mathematical formulas and geometric shapes can reveal hidden beauty in their simplicity and profundity.
    Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Multiplicity occasionally, almost accidentally, grasps at profundities about work-life balance that Severance would explore using a more innovative sci-fi premise decades later.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In part because of their obscurity, the slashing has gone relatively overlooked.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 23 Apr. 2025
  • But after about a week, T-Coronae Borealis will fade back to obscurity.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Unknowability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowability. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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