unspeakableness
English edit
Etymology edit
unspeakable + -ness
Noun edit
unspeakableness (uncountable)
- The condition or quality of being unspeakable.
- 2007 January 27, Paul Berton, “How do we define gruesome? (editorial)”, in London Free Press, Canada:
- Obviously, it's the unspeakableness, the sheer horror of it, that is motivating some news organizations.
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. See "unspeakable."