IMPENETRABILITY

impenetrability, impenetrableness

(noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand

impenetrability, imperviousness

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

impenetrability (countable and uncountable, plural impenetrabilities)

The characteristic of being impenetrable; invulnerability.

Source: Wiktionary


Im*pen`e*tra*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. impénétrabilité.]

1. Quality of being impenetrable.

2. (Physics)

Definition: That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.

3. Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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