inapprehensible

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Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Many other things are doubtless implied in infinity which, if we noticed them, would leave us quite cold; and still others, no doubt, are inapprehensible with our sort and degree of intellect.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George

For here is a predicate which he sufficiently apprehends, what is inapprehensible in the proposition being confined to the subject.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

To painting, again, belongs the play of feature, indicative of internal movement, through a whole gamut of modulations inapprehensible by sculpture.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Not merely, therefore, is the phenomenon inexplicable to you, but the very nature of it is inapprehensible by you.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George