imponderabilia

[ im-pon-der-uh-bil-ee-uh, -bil-yuh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

imponderables; things that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated:
the imponderabilia surrounding human life.

imponderabilia

/ ɪmˌpɒndərəˈbɪlɪə /

First recorded in 1920–25; from New Latin, neuter plural of Medieval Latin imponderābilis imponderable

C20: New Latin

The answer, as K. well knows, depends upon too many imponderabilia to be worth the cost of a cable.

Their mistake—it was also Mr. Wilson's great mistake—was in their disregard of what Bismarck called the imponderabilia.

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[fur-kin ]

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