INVISIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invisibility mean? 

• INVISIBILITY (noun)
  The noun INVISIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of not being perceivable by the eye

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVISIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not being perceivable by the eye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

invisibility; invisibleness

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

physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "invisibility"):

inconspicuousness (the quality of being not easily seen)

Antonym:

visibility (quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye)

Derivation:

invisible (impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye)

 Context examples 

I was only five feet away and directly in what should have been his line of vision. It was uncanny. I felt myself a ghost, what of my invisibility.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)