1. adj. Incapable of being imagined; inconceivable, incomprehensible.
1611. Cotgr., Inimaginable, vnimaginable, vnconceiuable.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., i. (1634), 30. Miserable, unexpressible, unimaginable, macerable condition, where [etc.].
1655. H. More, App. Antid., vii. 377. It is utterly unimaginable, but that there should be a Triangular distance in the midst of them.
1746. Hervey, Medit., Refl. Flower Garden, 42. With what un-imaginable Complacency, does Justice rest satisfied!
1821. Scott, Kenilw., vi. I shall thank him more for the love that has created such an unimaginable paradise, than for all the wonders it contains!
1878. P. Bayne, Purit. Rev., i. 7. To believe in an unseen and unimaginable Spirit.
2. sb. pl. = INEXPRESSIBLE sb. 2.
1833. T. Hamilton, Men & Manners (1843), 391. The men … rejoiced in snuff-coloured waistcoats and unimaginables.
Hence Unimaginableness.
1659. H. More, Immort. Soul, I. vi. 37. The unimaginableness of Points and smallest Particles.
1871. W. G. Ward, Philos. Theism (1894), I. 17. That the unimaginableness of proposition is incompatible with its truth.
