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Inscrutability

noun
1.
The quality of being impossible to investigate.






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"Inscrutability" Quotes from Famous Books



... memory of accidents or unforeseen events that he is dependent on his surroundings, he invests every feature of his environment with a capricious humor reflecting his own disposition, and gives to each and all a subtlety and inscrutability corresponding to his exalted estimation of his own craft in the chase and war; and, conceiving himself to live and move only at the mercy of his multitudinous associates, he becomes a fatalist—kismet is his watchword, and he meets defeat and death with resignation, just as he goes to ...
— The Siouan Indians • W. J. McGee



Words linked to "Inscrutability" :   incomprehensibility, inscrutable



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