sublime
A quality a concept, object, or experience may be said to have if it is breath-taking, unique, incomparable, and beyond words. As several 17th and 18th century travellers noted, the Alps are sublime in this sense because nothing at ground level prepares one for the view from their austere peaks, where earth and sky seem to meet (e.g., ... ...
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