unparaphrasable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From un- + paraphrase + -able.
Adjective[edit]
unparaphrasable (not comparable)
- Impossible to paraphrase
- 1988 February 12, Cerinda Survant, “Simple Magic”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Movement like this suggests images and meanings, yet refuses to dictate--it is movement with unspecified or unparaphrasable content, but content nonetheless […] .
- 2015 May 14, John Gibson, The Philosophy of Poetry[2], OUP Oxford, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
- The language of a poem is not a vehicle for conveying a thought that is independently expressible; it conveys a thought that is encapsulated in the vehicle. Poems create hyperintensional contexts, with content that is unparaphrasable, […]