incredifying
adj.— «He was also new to the ocean. He had seen it for the first time several months earlier on a school trip to San Diego. It still unnerved him to see so much water. He said it was “incredifying”—incredible and terrifying at the same time.» —“La Vida Robot” by Joshua Davis Wired Apr., 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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