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What is another word for unsayable?

Pronunciation: [ʌnsˈe͡ɪəbə͡l] (IPA)

The English language offers various synonyms for "unsayable." One can use "unpronounceable" to express a word that is impossible or difficult to articulate. "Unutterable" is another term used to describe something that is too intense or sacred to be expressed in words. "Unspeakable" can be used to describe an event or a situation that is too terrible or shocking to talk about. "Ineffable" is another synonym for "unsayable," which means that something is too great or too sublime to be put into words. Overall, these synonyms offer interesting alternatives for describing things that are impossible to express with words.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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  • The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
    Italo Calvino
  • Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?"
    Robert Penn Warren
  • Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism : they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
  • True Christianity at its most profound is as good as you get. … I think I've been lucky in the period which I've lived through because obviously I would have been for the chop in earlier days.I think that so much of our Christian beliefs … are an attempt to convey through language something which is unsayable.
    R. S. Thomas

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