uncommunicable

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But Bernard Levin, writing in The London Observer that same year, noted that “as a communication of the uncommunicable, ‘Conundrum’ is very good indeed.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2020

But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Th' inanimate forms, Nature's unchisel'd workmanship—unsullied By man's rude contact—'tis with these I hold Converse and high communion; And from the spirit that lives in them, free And uncommunicable intercourse My soul receives.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

The fresh beauty of such songs as these is, however, almost utterly uncommunicable in another language.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Schubert at once assumed what was intended to be a sly look, of uncommunicable knowledge.

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot