impenetrability
- noun
- /ɪmˌpɛnəˈtræbɪlɪti/
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impenetrabilidad
- The impenetrability of his argument left the audience confused and frustrated.
Examples
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Even as we grew up and my vocabulary sprawled across a much wider range of evocative adjectives and profanity, I was rarely able to articulate anything other than sputtering rage in the face of his Zen-like impenetrability.
Fiction book (2001) -
It has its pitfalls and, and in fact, it it's, it's sort of cognitive impenetrability, the fact that it doesn't care what you know is a problem.
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We're used to seeing this impenetrability of age and ego.
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Indeed, the real reason for the impenetrability of the writings is often the turbid minds of the writers.
Blog text (6) -
The terms rely very little on the commonsense vernacular, and their very impenetrability suggests that only the serious scientist will be able to appreciate their significance.
Academic text (1990) -
Mugamma's insanity has long epitomized the impenetrability of the Egyptian bureaucracy.
Blog text (15) -
Many students struggle with the impenetrability of complex theories in advanced mathematics.
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The article's impenetrability made it difficult for readers to grasp the main ideas.
Synonyms
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7.4
Hard to understand or see, making people feel confused
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7.4
Hard to find or understand
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8.3
How hard something is to understand because it is unclear
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9.9
A quality that you cannot understand or know the reasons for
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9.9
A state where something is very hard to understand
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9.9
A quality that makes facts and events impossible to find out or fully understand
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5.2
A quality of being hard to understand and making people curious
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9.9
Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
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9.9
Something that is very hard to understand
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9.8
A state when something cannot be explained or understood
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9.9
A difficulty understanding handwriting, signs, or codes
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex
Difficulty understanding something because it is very complex
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
You cannot easily understand or picture it in your mind
A quality of being impossible to get through or understand
Writing that is hard to understand or enjoy
State of being hard to understand
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
Antonyms
How Understandable
Surface Forms
Morphology
impenetrability = impenetrable (transparent) = im + penetrate + able + ity
Derived by adding '-ity' to 'impenetrable'; the morphological relation is straightforward.
Etymology
Impenetrability comes from im- ('not') and penetrate ('to enter' or 'get into'), with -ability ('can be done'). So, when a book or idea has impenetrability, it feels 'not able to be entered', in other words very hard to understand.