impalpability

Examples

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• The artist's work often reflects an impalpability that invites the viewer to interpret the meaning beyond what is visible.

• We hear and look up as one at the two attendants hurriedly wheeling something so shrunken it seems merely another rumple in the blanket, tubes traveling in and out of its impalpability, its only life this lifeless cry.

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• Despite his efforts to explain the concept, there was an impalpability to his ideas that left the audience confused.

Synonyms

I

intangibility

vsimpalpability

1 8.3

Something you cannot touch, like an idea or feeling

is the same meaning but uses a different noun form

I

imperceptibility

vsimpalpability

1 9.5

A state of being very hard to notice

is limited to touch and physical feeling rather than all senses

I

intangibleness

vsimpalpability

9.5

A state of not being able to be touched or measured

is the same sense but uses an alternative noun ending

I

insubstantiality

vsimpalpability

9.2

A lack of being real, strong, or convincing

emphasizes being not felt by touch rather than lacking real substance

Antonyms

T

tangibility

1 6.1

How easily something can be touched

P

palpability

8.1

How easy something is to feel by touch

P

perceptibility

7.2

A quality that makes something easy to notice by the senses or mind

How Tangible

solidity

3 4.0

palpability

8.1

tangibility

1 6.1

imperceptibility

1 9.5

impalpability

9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology