as in impenetrability
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Recent Examples of unknowability
Instead, what makes the triptych of thematically connected snapshots memorable is its deftly unfussy observation of the unknowability that can endure among people who share the same bloodlines.
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
The unknowability of life is beautiful, but so too is our desire to know.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
The unknowability of life is beautiful, but so too is our desire to know.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknowability
Noun
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This may be Riley’s attempt to portray the insularity and impenetrability of Ruth’s community, a faith so particular that even the reader is denied access to it.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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For certain travelers, though, especially those who gravitate toward conflict zones and geopolitical oddities, Turkmenistan’s impenetrability has given it an alluring mystique.—
Joe Yogerst,
CNN Money,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Théodore Pellerin is a force of abstract inscrutability as Matthew, a character whose true motivations are always kept just out of frame.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Your tolerance level for flakiness or vagueness can be flagged pretty quickly.—
Lucy Thorpe,
Refinery29,
10 Sep. 2025
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Our mission to bolster the neighborhoods on the West, East and Midtown areas of our city persists even in the veil of vagueness that now surrounds the prison’s future.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The show is serious about the barely exceptional lives of unremarkable American kids, finding profundity by treating these crossroads in life with care and nuance, not as petty problems.—
Greta Rainbow,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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From beach books to profundity, long-form fiction opened minds and shrank the world.—
Doug McIntyre,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Many technological challenges abound in the murkiness of natural language chatting.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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With a single photo, though, Swift vaulted it from obscurity into obsession.—
Malaika Crawford,
Vogue,
13 Sep. 2025
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By the finale, Gaal is no longer the uncertain mathematician plucked from obscurity.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Unknowability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowability. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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