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Such a spiritual experience has ineffable qualities that cannot be entirely shared.ineffable = indescribable (impossible to put into words)
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It filled her with ineffable happiness to see her daughter thriving in college.ineffable = indescribably wonderful
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Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings always fills me with an ineffable sadness.ineffable = indescribable
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The effect of music is ineffable because we can't understand how it resonates within us.
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It is part of the ineffable mystery of consciousness.
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And then you feel a wave of nausea, a fist clenching from within your rib cage, cold sweat hot forehead you've got it it's already inside of you crowding out everything else taking you over and it's going to kill you and eat its way out of you and then in a small voice, half strangled by the ineffable horror, you barely squeeze out the words you need to say. (source)
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There was an air of such ineffable peace and joy all around her that her heart's wild thumping slowed. (source)ineffable = something that cannot be put into words
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No sense of the irony of human existence, that we are the highest form of life on earth and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. (source)ineffably = indescribably
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To him, the spirit lodged within Billy, and looking out from his welkin eyes as from windows, that ineffability it was which made the dimple in his dyed cheek, suppled his joints, and dancing in his yellow curls made him preeminently the Handsome Sailor.† (source)
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Limbo is packed with little black babies flying around and crying for their mothers because they'll never be admitted to the ineffable presence of Our Lord and the glorious company of saints, martyrs, virgins. (source)ineffable = indescribably wonderful
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The scene between the captive girl and her master was both ineffably mysterious and shamelessly frank.† (source)
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The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath.† (source)
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Now it was an even slower process as I agonized over the perfect word, the precise rhyme scheme, the most playful image, and the most ineffable analog to the most elusive emotion. (source)ineffable = indescribable
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The warm, faintly soap-scented humidity of her body, ineffably sweet "I'm so relieved to see you again.† (source)
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Juanita refused to analyze this process, insisted that it was something ineffable, something you couldn't explain with words. (source)
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He smiled with an ineffably benign superiority.† (source)
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