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Invulnerability

Invulnerability \In*vul"ner*a*bil`i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. invuln['e]rabilit['e].] Quality or state of being invulnerable.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invulnerability

1775, from invulnerable + -ity.

Wiktionary
invulnerability

n. The state of being invulnerable.

WordNet
invulnerability
  1. n. having the strength to withstand attack [syn: impregnability]

  2. the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally) [ant: vulnerability]

Usage examples of "invulnerability".

The ribbon and its fluids as well as the encasing tube buffered the embryos with more invulnerability against the rigors of space travel than had they been carried in a natural womb.

Armed only with invulnerability, a death ray and a magic talisman, you managed to cobble up a fiasco.

He stalked through the night, taking great care certainly, but with a growing sense of invulnerability because of what he knew he was heading out to do.

It had the unparalleled computer power of a Brown-Ash Mark IX computer, a whole con­stellation of engineering testing equipment, laboratories and offices big enough to house a small city, invulnerability to even a direct strike by a multimegaton hydro­gen bomb, and internal security so strict that, to prevent leakage of plans, all but the most senior staff had to agree to remain in the inaccessible but comfortable un­derground chamber until all plans were complete and their implementation begun.

At the short black conference table, standing across from Commander Thanas and beside the fraudulent “General” Solo, he found Commander Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight, self-assured in his invulnerability.

Even as a child he had never been afraid of the dangers that surrounded their desert habitat -- giant scorpions and tiger beetles and saga insects -- because he had an odd sense of invulnerability.

A star sapphire may be used as the material component of a minor globe of invulnerability or globe of invulnerability spell, and in each case increases the level of spells warded off by the barrier by one.