impalpability
English
Etymology
Formed as impalpable + -ity; compare the French impalpabilité.
Pronunciation
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Noun
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
- “impalpable, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]