UNANSWERABILITY Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

unanswerability

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as in impenetrability

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Noun

What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

Definition of impenetrability

Noun

In the same way that audiences are trying to unpack the central scheme — or interlocking set of schemes — at the center of Paula’s newfound predicament, so was the Emmy-winning Maslany drawn to the inscrutability of her character.

— Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 24 May 2026
What these critics don’t reckon with enough is that inscrutability is also a feature of the world.

— Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of inscrutability

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But that sort of vagueness is hardly unusual for a campaign, and Platner provided enough detail to communicate the overall shape of his program.

— Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
The vagueness of the framework’s language could leave room for dispute, however, according to Johnson.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 25 July 2026

Definition of vagueness

Noun

Bradshaw raised the ambiguity of the film’s central letter, in which Elisabet leaves an envelope open for Alma to read, and asked whether Bergman was showing a darker, more sadistic side of his heroine.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
An email to me from WHO provides the information needed to resolve the ambiguity.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of ambiguity

Noun

Rather than being propelled to greater heights and providing a template for how to produce future Scotland internationals, the majority are fading to part-time obscurity.

— Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Shares jumped over 500%, as investors clamored for a piece of a firm that has risen from obscurity to compete with rivals such as Samsung and Micron at home amid an AI-induced demand boom.

— Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of obscurity

Noun

That’s because dishwashers are equipped with something called a turbidity sensor that basically senses the murkiness of the water and adjusts the wash cycle accordingly.

— Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026
The murkiness of the injury bled into free agency and Christensen’s Carolina future remains unsettled, despite the team’s unproven depth options on the line, particularly at guard.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026

Definition of murkiness

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