Meaning & use
unquantifiable
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Not able to be measured or expressed as a quantity.
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The emotional toll of the disaster was ultimately unquantifiable.
Investors struggled to price in the unquantifiable risk of political instability.
A note on using this word
Unquantifiable is often used to argue that a value or impact resists being reduced to numbers, especially in economics and ethics.
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