After a far greater than anticipated amount of research, I am still unable to find and confirm an exact antonym for the word 'replicable'. I have found multiple sites that have one (or some combination) of the three following words: 'unreplicable', 'non-replicable', and 'irreplicable'. For a 4 page paper that I am writing, (I'll be using one of these three words in a thesis statement which I've been attempting to perfect for 20 minutes now), which one of these three words (or maybe some other word) would be best?
My thesis statement is here: https://pastebin.com/7ywaPhq3
Best Answer
Though none of the reliable dictionaries includes words irreplicable, unreplicable, and non-replicable/nonreplicable, they are seen on websites as normal as any other words. Of these three words, the non-hyphenated nonreplicable has the highest acceptability and unreplicable is more acceptable than irreplicable as per the Google Ngram Viewer.
I think it is better to avoid any such dubious words in an academic thesis and instead, rephrase the sentence using some other expressions, as:
...while managing to invigorate nearly all viewers with irreproducible emotions.