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IMPREGNABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impregnability mean?
• IMPREGNABILITY (noun)
The noun IMPREGNABILITY has 1 sense:
1. having the strength to withstand attack
Familiarity information: IMPREGNABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the strength to withstand attack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
impregnability; invulnerability
Hypernyms ("impregnability" is a kind of...):
safety (the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions)
Derivation:
impregnable (immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with)
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