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

When Ishmael stops by the Whaleman's Chapel before his fateful journey, "each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable."

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021

Her new book, “Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children,” is a ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2018

“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

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer