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Unintelligibility

noun

Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible. Synonyms: incoherence, incoherency.

Incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible.

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"Unintelligibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... eighty-four.[436] In this book Bentham's peculiarities of style reach their highest development, and it cannot be recommended as light reading. Had Bentham been a mystical philosopher, he would, we may conjecture, have achieved a masterpiece of unintelligibility which all his followers would have extolled as containing the very essence of his teaching. His method condemned him to be always intelligible, however crabbed and elaborate. Perhaps, however, the point which strikes one most is the amazing simple-mindedness of ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen

... intoxicated; at other times, nay, on the very next page, he will be high-sounding, severe, and deeply learned, prolix to the last degree of dulness, and cutting everything very small, like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern garment. The mask of unintelligibility holds out the longest; this is only in Germany, however, where it was introduced by Fichte, perfected by Schelling, and attained its highest climax finally in Hegel, always with the happiest results. And yet nothing is easier than to write so that no one can understand; on the other ...

— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer