Inarticulable. “Incapable of being expressed clearly with words.” There are certain things you just feel. Like a Monday feels different from a Friday. Or when you go on vacation and come home, your home feels different to you. If you go visit your childhood home and it feels so different from what you remember. Usually much smaller. Maybe because you are bigger!
Indescribable or ineffable are synonyms. A sunset would be an inarticulable, beautiful thing to watch. Why is it that we all find it so magical? A rainbow, a puppy, the ocean – most humans find these things beauteous. Love is the most inarticulable feeling of all. The mystery of how we fall in love. Also, the love we have for a pet versus a significant other – very different--both inarticulable. I used to define love as wanting someone else’s happiness over your own. I still do but it’s so much more. It’s such an intense feeling but indescribable.
The more you can articulate when communicating with someone, the better off you will be. Repressed communication can lead to arguments or even violence. When you try to communicate something to someone, but you're unable to fully communicate what you mean, it can lead to miscommunication which can cause conflict. With marriage this is certainly the case. An inability to articulate is one of the top reasons for divorce. Disagreements are often caused by an inability to articulate the way you feel and why you feel that way. It’s why couples can find themselves having the same argument over and over with no resolution.
Paintings and art are inarticulable. When you’re asked to describe a painting, it’s how it makes you feel that counts because for some paintings we will never know the artist’s intent—particularly if they are dead. I really dislike it when people are pretentious about it all. It’s such a turn off. When they try to use these highfalutin words to describe a work of art. Check out this funny scene from LA Story…
Ok dead artists like Salvador Dali, who in my view was the most interesting and original artists of the 20th century. So unique and without truly understanding surrealism, I still sometimes understand what he means to convey. At least I think I do! The dream state is how I would describe surrealism in a nutshell. I have so many dreams every night and I have been writing them down and then I read them and think maybe I belong in an institution! Dreams are often inarticulable or when you try to describe it, it sounds completely non-sensical.
Spirituality is inarticulable. I have always felt there was something bigger—a higher power. When I was really young, I did think there was possibly a guy in the sky with a long beard, determining what things happened but then when I learned about the Holocaust, slavery and so many other atrocities, I couldn’t get my head around it. Then people would say God gave us free will and I thought well why would he do that and allow us to kill each other. I think both of my parents were agnostic. They were Jewish but not religious. My daughter, who is 12, thinks we live in a simulation. No surprise there with all of the technology her generation uses. I would say I am spiritual. I think when my dad told me I couldn’t touch the sky when I was 5—that it was infinity—I no longer thought there was a guy in the sky. We are each a part of who God is, manifested in physical form. God is our higher self or soul. I think the non-physical (God) is inarticulable.
AI is another thing I cannot articulate. I mean to say the way I feel it encroaching on my life so strongly now. More than ever before. It's right there. The minute I start to type something, it's already there. It's like it's a friend who is a little obsessed with me. Always following me. A little creepy. But I love my algorithm because it's me! I wonder if AI will become sentient? I think so because we created it. Able to perceive or feel things. It already can I believe.
That song I Feel It Coming must have a sexual reference. Impending orgasm. There's more than a sexual aspect but that's the one that I immediately thought of—of course. It's such a sexual song. I can feel that body shake; and the heat between your legs.
He repeats I feel it coming over and over because he's referring to sex, or so I think so. You know that feeling. It's so close.
Why are you attracted to another is often inarticulable. For men it seems to be more straightforward. It’s the looks because they are so visual.
Sometimes you just cannot articulate why you find someone attractive when they are not according to what society says. Remember that movie Casino with Robert DeNiro and Sharon Stone? Sharon Stone was in love with this guy played by James Woods, who was a complete loser in every way. An unattractive person. Robert De Niro cannot fathom it. It makes no sense, but it does for her. It was the essence of the person that for some reason she liked. Which is an energy like we cannot describe because it is inarticulable. The essence of a person is as inarticulate as love. Not one of us has the same personality. Not even identical twins. You can attribute certain characteristics of someone like outgoing, fun-loving, gregarious, or on the flipside introverted, shy, avoidant, but the real personality is not articulable, because we are each unique. Our energies/personalities are unable to be expressed fully with words. #Inarticulable.