incomprehensibility
incomprehensibility — 名詞
1. the condition in which a text, statement, or situation is so confusing that you
費解難懂
無法或極難理解的狀態
the condition in which a text, statement, or situation is so confusing that you cannot understand it at all
Esme stared at the physics formula and shook her head at its incomprehensibility.
Esme 盯著那條物理公式，因為完全看不懂而直搖頭。
uncountable: the incomprehensibility of [something]
The incomprehensibility of the legal contract forced the couple to hire a lawyer.
那份法律合約的費解程度，迫使這對夫婦聘請了一名律師。
Yan found the incomprehensibility of the ancient poem both frustrating and beautiful.
Yan 覺得那首古詩雖然很難懂，卻有種令人既挫折又著迷的美感。
Lukas spent the whole afternoon reading the software manual before giving up on it out of sheer incomprehensibility.
Lukas 花了一整個下午讀那本軟體手冊，最後因為實在太難懂而放棄。
Nothing in Nadia's accounting course had prepared her for the sheer incomprehensibility of the tax forms.
Nadia 在會計課上學的東西，完全沒讓她準備好面對那些報稅表格的令人費解程度。
- unintelligibility
more specific — describes speech or writing that cannot be understood at all, while incomprehensibility can also cover abstract difficulty
- obscurity
broader — can mean lack of fame or unclear meaning; less strong than incomprehensibility
- impenetrability
metaphorical — suggests a text resists all attempts to understand it, like a wall
- clarity
direct opposite — the quality of being easy to understand
- intelligibility
direct opposite — the state of being understandable
文法句型
the incomprehensibility of + noun phrase
用法筆記
Almost always used with 'the' and followed by 'of' + a noun phrase naming the confusing thing. Uncountable — no plural form.