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IMPALPABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impalpability mean? 

IMPALPABILITY (noun)
  The noun IMPALPABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touchplay

  Familiarity information: IMPALPABILITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPALPABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impalpability; intangibility; intangibleness

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

immateriality; incorporeality (the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter)

Antonym:

palpability (the quality of being perceivable by touch)

Derivation:

impalpable (incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch)


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