indefinable
nounEtymology From in- + definable.
1
Anything that cannot be defined.
indefinable
adjEtymology From in- + definable.
1
That which cannot be precisely defined or put into words.
- They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
2
That which defies description; indescribable.
- Synonyms
- undefinable
- Antonyms
- definable
- Derived terms
- indefinableness, indefinably
- Related terms
- indefinability