Lexic.us

Definition of Intangibleness

1. Noun. The quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch.

Definition of Intangibleness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intangibleness

Literary usage of Intangibleness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1871)
"INSUSCEPTIBLE. Intangibility, n. intangibleness. Intangible, a. Impalpable, that cannot be touched. Integer, n. Whole number. ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
""The intangibleness of it excited my curiosity and that was P . . . When it did come that amused me and that was the P part" (K 182). "The irritation was U, ..."

3. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... are equally suited for narrative, for dialogue, for description, for almost every literary end. Were it not for the intangibleness, and therefore the ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"The analysis of a social atmosphere is always interesting, if perplexing: its very intangibleness tempts one to try to seize and define what, ..."

5. The Catholic Spirit in Modern English Literature by George Nauman Shuster (1922)
"... that the skeptic could plausibly deny the reality of both Creator and Christianity, or could, at least, affirm the essential intangibleness of both. ..."

6. Echoes of Harper's Ferry by James Redpath (1860)
"... and agree with it, abstaining from putting into their programmes any implication of the sac.redness or intangibleness of Slavery as a vested right; ..."

7. Race Orthodoxy in the South: And Other Aspects of the Negro Question by Thomas Pearce Bailey (1914)
"Or will the present auspiciously begun Democratic regime timidly dodge this vital question because of its difficulty and its "intangibleness" ? ..."

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