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The quality of being intangible
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impalpability
Word definitions for impalpability in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being intangible [syn: intangibility , intangibleness ] [ant: tangibility , tangibility ]
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.
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.
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.