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IMPALPABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impalpability mean?
• IMPALPABILITY (noun)
The noun IMPALPABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch
Familiarity information: IMPALPABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
impalpability; intangibility; intangibleness
Hypernyms ("impalpability" is a kind of...):
immateriality; incorporeality (the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter)
Antonym:
palpability (the quality of being perceivable by touch)
Derivation:
impalpable (incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch)
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