Incommensurableness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incommensurable \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
     commensurable: cf. F. incommensurable.]
     Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of
     comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third
     quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the
     side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each


     other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are
     incommensurable.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           They are quantities incommensurable.     --Burke.
     -- {In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`com*men"su*ra*bly},
     adv.
     [1913 Webster]