conceivability

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Since then he had watched eagerly for evidences of another life: and the sense of its conceivability grew upon him, in spite of the doubts which he had entertained of the immortality of the soul.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

And in the vast majority of cases this test of relative inconceivability is, for all practical purposes, as valid a test of truth as is the test of absolute conceivability.

From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John

The distance becomes less and less, but theoretically, or in conceivability, the one can never overtake the other.

From To Infidelity and Back by Lutz, Henry F. (Henry Frey)

Not as hard, unimpressionable, dull, and inert, but as live, supple, sensitive, and active�active with an intensity of activity past all conceivability.

From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

"You do not admit the conceivability at all?" he queried.

From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance