unparaphrasable
adjEtymology From un- + paraphrase + -able.
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Impossible to paraphrase
- Movement like this suggests images and meanings, yet refuses to dictate--it is movement with unspecified or unparaphrasable content, but content nonetheless[…].1988 February 12, Cerinda Survant, “Simple Magic”, in Chicago Reader:
- The language of a poem is not a vehicle for conveying a thought that is independently expressible; it conveys a thought that is encapsulated in the vehicle. Poems create hyperintensional contexts, with content that is unparaphrasable,[…]2015 May 14, John Gibson, The Philosophy of Poetry, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31: