Meaning & use
Inscrutability
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The quality of being difficult or impossible to understand or interpret.
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The old man's inscrutability made it impossible to guess what he was thinking.
Critics noted the painting's deliberate inscrutability, resisting a single interpretation.
A note on using this word
"Inscrutability" comes from the Latin "scrutari" (to search or examine), with the negative prefix indicating something that resists close examination.
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mysteriousnessimpenetrability
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