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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 attackplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPREGNABILITY (noun)


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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