unsayable

Adjective

Meaning

(philosophy) Not capable of being said.

(rare) Not allowed or not fit to be said.

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Examples

Much of philosophy involves attempts to say the unsayable: "What we can say at all can be said clearly," he argues. Source: Internet

The main contention of such readings is that Wittgenstein in the Tractatus does not provide a theoretical account of language that relegates ethics and philosophy to a mystical realm of the unsayable. Source: Internet

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