incommunicability means the quality or state of being incommunicable. It carries an Arena rating of 1059, earned across 133 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, incommunicability ranks #297 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #2,829 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #3,946 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #5,027 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words.
Why “incommunicability” is a great word
INCOMMUNICABILITY — [Noun] The quality or state of being incapable of being communicated, shared, or imparted. Formed within English from the adjective 'incommunicable' (from Late Latin incommunicabilis, from in- 'not' + communicabilis 'communicable') and the noun-forming suffix '-ity' (from Latin -itas). First attested in the 1630s. Unlike "ineffability," which hallows what is too great for words, or the direct, affirmative flow of "communicability," incommunicability is the pervasive negation of the bridge between interior worlds. It is the private color of a dream that bleaches to gray in the telling, the precise texture of a pain that evaporates under another's touch, the silent logic of a thought you can never justify—the fundamental loneliness of a consciousness forever drafting letters it can never send.
Etymology
From in- + communicability.
noun
- The quality or state of being incommunicable.
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