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Impalpability

Impalpability \Im*pal`pa*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. impalpabilit['e].] The quality of being impalpable.
--Jortin.

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impalpability

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.

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impalpability

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 trumĀ­peter swans.