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The quality of being intangible
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impalpability
Word definitions for impalpability in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being impalpable; intangibility. 2 # Physical imperceptibility; incapability of being sensed by the tactual faculties. 3 # ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impalpability \Im*pal`pa*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. impalpabilit['e].] The quality of being impalpable. --Jortin.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being intangible [syn: intangibility , intangibleness ] [ant: tangibility , tangibility ]
Usage examples of impalpability.
These were unusual fish in that they had not howled and climbed up the fish spear to engulf my hands with a maw of ravening fury before melting into a swarm of butterflies and scattering into impalpability against the sky.
The Amulet also conferred a degree of impalpability upon its wearer, which was just as well when he passed through a large flock of trumpeter swans.