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English
Etymology
From un- + experienceable.
Adjective
unexperienceable (not comparable)
- (chiefly philosophy) Incapable of being experienced.
1912 January 18, W. P. Montague, “The New Realism and the Old”, in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume 9, number 2, page 45:It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist.
2000 Jan, Kevin Schilbrack, “Metaphysics in Dōgen”, in Philosophy East and West, volume 50, number 1, p. 53 n61:It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.