What is another word for Inexplicability?

Pronunciation: [ˌɪnɛksplɪsˌɛəbˈɪlɪti] (IPA)

Inexplicability refers to the quality of something being hard or impossible to explain. Synonyms for the term include enigma, mystery, perplexity, and puzzle. An enigma is a mystery that is difficult to solve or understand. Mystery refers to a situation that involves inexplicable or contradictory aspects. Perplexity suggests confusion or bewilderment caused by a problem or situation that is difficult to understand. A puzzle is a mystery or enigma that presents a challenge to the intellect. Other synonyms for inexplicability include obscurity, opacity, inscrutability, and incomprehensibility. All of these words indicate that something is difficult to comprehend, understand, or explain.

Usage examples for Inexplicability

Vaguely he perceived this, conscious only of Inexplicability; but he himself also ceased, and watched for developments.
"The Necromancers"
Robert Hugh Benson
But the Inexplicability of saying whom a woman may not take it into her head to marry was no barrier to the friendship of the Lady Elizabeth, who kept all her religion for her own consumption and did not even trouble her son with it-which was a great pity, for he indeed had much need, though small desire, thereof.
"The Lilac Sunbonnet"
S.R. Crockett
He seems to me to confound the difficulty of forming ideas with the less important one of forming new ones; the difficulty of transition with the Inexplicability of the matter.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Related words: strange things, questions, phenomena, mysteries

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