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unthinkability - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The character of being unthinkable.
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noun The property of being unthinkable .
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unthinkable + -ity
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The unthinkability they impute to class warfare is a bogus add-on, borne of their desire not to have to think about it while nonetheless engaging in it.
Ellis Weiner: An Open Discussion of Class Warfare -- "Of Course You Realize This Has Meant War" 2008
And that's where the argument has bogged down, at least among intellectuals, almost permanently since the 1960s ... because of the unthinkability of pointing out that, well, yes, maybe, blacks aren't Swedes.
8/28/05 - 9/4/05 Steve Sailer 2005
And that's where the argument has bogged down, at least among intellectuals, almost permanently since the 1960s ... because of the unthinkability of pointing out that, well, yes, maybe, blacks aren't Swedes.
Archive 2005-09-04 Steve Sailer 2005
And that's where the argument has bogged down, at least among intellectuals, almost permanently since the 1960s ... because of the unthinkability of pointing out that, well, yes, maybe, blacks aren't Swedes.
A Man-Made Disaster: Steve Sailer 2005
Most were crowded close to the galactic nucleus, with a radiation background that made organic evolution unlikely almost to the point of unthinkability .
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
But between that an actually having such a relationship will be a wide gap of unthinkability .
GetReligion 2009
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