impalpability
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Formed as impalpable + -ity; compare the French impalpabilité.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmpălpəbĭʹlĭtĭ, IPA(key): /ɪmpælpəˈbɪlɪtɪ/
Noun[edit]
impalpability (usually uncountable, plural impalpabilities)
- The quality of being impalpable; intangibility.
- Physical imperceptibility; incapability of being sensed by the tactual faculties.
- Ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind.
References[edit]
- “impalpable, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]