impalpability

Noun
Synonyms: intangibilityintangibleness

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touchSynonyms: intangibilityintangiblenessType of immateriality, incorporeality
  2. Ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind.“The nebulous impalpability of ideas and trends was preferred at all times to the brute empiricism of humanity.”Type of imperceptibility

Related words intangible adjective, impalpable adjective

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Im·pal′pa·bil′i·ty noun

Origin: Cf. F. impalpabilité.

The quality of being impalpable. John Jortin

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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