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Definition of Inconceivable
Inconceivable

Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion.

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Inconceivable Quotations

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude Stein

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
Catherine Zeta-Jones

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Andrea Dworkin

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
Bob Woodward

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Jean Rostand

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
Alfred Russel Wallace

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
Chaim Potok

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.
Roland Allen

Inconceivable Translations

inconceivable in Dutch is ondoorgrondelijk, onbegrijpelijk
inconceivable in Italian is incomprensibile
inconceivable in Norwegian is ufattelig
inconceivable in Spanish is inconcebible
inconceivable in Swedish is ofattlig


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