incommunicable

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Mr. Dyer remained a dutiful son but, sensing that part of his life was now incommunicable to his parents, withheld his most important feelings from them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

“Like religious experiences, it was profoundly incommunicable: a void opened up between him and everyone else, he thought, just for having seen what he’d seen, for having touched what he’d touched.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2018

I mean it was the first real book, and also the first book I ever read, in the sense that I had a private vision of what I was reading about—unexpected, incommunicable, painfully exciting.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2015

Flanagan said that he and his five siblings grew up “children of the Death Railway. We carried in consequence many incommunicable things.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2014

That I was not dueling with Argaven, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin