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What is the noun for inscrutableness?

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scrutiny
  1. Intense study of someone or something.
  2. Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
  3. An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
  4. A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
  5. An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Every aspect of local government was placed under scrutiny.”
      “He righted his shirt under her watchful scrutiny.”
scrutator
  1. A person who scrutinizes or investigates.
scrutineer
inscrutable
  1. One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.
scrutinization
  1. The act of scrutinizing; scrutiny
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “While a few of his larger trades are victim to scrutinization, Ken has been on the right side of the fence more often than not.”
      “Jackson grimaced under the scrutinization of his superior officer and knew that he was in very hot water.”
      “A challenge is that the vast majority of contracts between governments and the extractive industry are not available for public scrutinization.”
scrutinisation
  1. Alternative spelling of scrutinization
  2. Examples:
    1. “The scrutinisation of these metrics served the purpose of assessing if there was any evidence of CE practices in these organisations.”
inscrutability
  1. The condition of being inscrutable
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The poet's enigmatic verses were praised for their inscrutability, captivating readers with their mysterious and elusive meanings.”
      “The inscrutability of his response left me puzzled and unsure of what he truly meant.”
      “Buckner's interests move more toward atmosphere than concrete content, yet he never veers off too far into inscrutability or vagaries.”
scrutiniser
  1. Alternative form of scrutinizer
scrutation
  1. (obsolete) Search; scrutiny.
inscrutableness
  1. Inscrutability
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It seemed to me that here was the key to her inscrutableness, the clue that, if followed properly, would make all her strangeness plain.”
      “It seemed to me that here was the key to her inscrutableness, the clue that if followed properly would make all her strangeness plain.”
      “It's not heretical, it won't upend Darwin, or give you supernatural powers, but it is a necessary pursuit in our never-ending quest to unpick the inscrutableness of being.”
scrutinizer
  1. One who scrutinizes.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He was too close a scrutinizer of the part and not enough of an observer of the whole for good portraiture.”
      “Despite his best efforts, the scrutinizer fails to recover the escaped memory, fails to recapture time past.”
      “Each ballot is pulled out, marked by the first scrutinizer, passed to the next for examination and then read out by the third.”
scrutinisations
  1. plural of scrutinisation
scrutinizations
scrutinisers
  1. plural of scrutiniser
inscrutables
  1. plural of inscrutable
scrutinizers
scrutineers
scrutations
  1. plural of scrutation
scrutators
  1. plural of scrutator
  2. Examples:
    1. “Messrs. M. S. Giuseppi and W. A. Littledale were appointed scrutators of the ballot.”
      “First the conclave, the three scrutators, and himself as one of them.”
scrutinies
  1. plural of scrutiny
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The small percipient eyes are screwed up, and wrinkled from his repeated minute scrutinies.”
      “In response to all the above-mentioned cases, I published critical scrutinies of Korpi's assertions.”
      “The group entered the store, Vicki only vaguely aware of Cora and Andy's chatter and Wil's long, sidelong scrutinies.”
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