non-understandability

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non-understandability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being nonunderstandable.
    • 1964, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, page 384:
      In later chapters Jaspers shows considerable awareness that the understandability or non-understandability of psychopathological behavior and experience is a relative matter.
    • 1965, Current Musicology, page 89:
      Adorno claims that very often the non-understandability of the listeners is willfully confirmed by non-understandable performances (1959d:66).
    • 1965, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, page 160:
      At common law these contracts were enforceable in equity, absent fraud, misrepresentation, and non-understandability of their force and effect.

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