Unable to be grasped; incomprehensible, elusive, or impossible to hold onto physically or mentally.
From grasp + -less suffix (meaning 'without' or 'lacking'); creates an opposite concept through English's productive suffix system.
This word captures something philosophically interesting—quantum physics discovered that at tiny scales, particles are truly 'graspless,' impossible to hold in both position and momentum at once, which rewrote how we understand reality.
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