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Definition of "unrepresentable" [unrepresentable]

  • That cannot be represented, shown or displayed (adjective)

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Use "unrepresentable" in a sentence
  • "De Man's reading of Kant teaches us a "strong" form of nonclassical theory, under the terms of which the unrepresentable is "unrepresentable even as unrepresentable," and leads toward an understanding of history as discontinuous event."
  • "At the same time these enigmatic phenomena stood not for lawlessness, but for the possible agency of deeper, unrepresentable laws operating within nature and the self."
  • "Amis's third Big Theme is sex more generally, or sex as a subject of fictional representation more generally; and his thesis here is that Sex is unrepresentable."