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IMPENETRABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impenetrability mean? 

IMPENETRABILITY (noun)
  The noun IMPENETRABILITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)play

2. incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understandplay

  Familiarity information: IMPENETRABILITY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPENETRABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impenetrability; imperviousness

Hypernyms ("impenetrability" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Antonym:

penetrability (the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.))

Derivation:

impenetrable (not admitting of penetration or passage into or through)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impenetrability; impenetrableness

Hypernyms ("impenetrability" is a kind of...):

incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)


 Context examples 


"I will put her to some test," thought I: "such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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