impensablement

French

Etymology

From impensable +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pɑ̃.sa.blə.mɑ̃/

Adverb

impensablement

unthinkably
- 1973, Pierre Henri Simon, Parier pour l'homme, page 33:
  La vue que nous donne la science de l’immensité cosmique et de la place dérisoire de l’homme, insecte éphémère sur une poussière perdue dans les galaxies impensablement innombrables.
  The view that science gives of the cosmic immenseness, and the pitiful place of man, an ephemeral insect on a speck of dust lost in the unthinkably numerous galaxies.

Further reading

“impensablement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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