MEANING
The quality of being difficult to interpret or penetrate through observation.
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Words that belong together
- inscrutability of expression
- deliberate inscrutability
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The portrait's inscrutability unsettled the visitors.
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- inscrutability
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.
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