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Ineffability

The quality of being beyond words: what mystics say their experience cannot be told.

Also: the ineffable

Philosophy and the study of mysticism

Mystics of every tradition say that what they know cannot be put into words, and then write about it at length. Philosophers debate whether ineffability is a feature of the experience, of its object, which exceeds every concept, or of language. The apophatic traditions make it a method: speech that unsays itself.