Definition of Impalpability

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


Definition of Impalpability

1. n. The quality of being impalpable.

Definition of Impalpability

1. Noun. The quality of being impalpable; intangibility. ¹

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Definition of Impalpability

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impalpability

impaler
impalers
impales
impaling
impalla
impallas
impallid
impallided
impalliding
impallids
impalm
impalmed
impalming
impalms
impalpabilities
impalpability (current term)
impalpable
impalpably
impalsied
impalsies
impalsy
impalsying
impanate
impanation
impanator
impanators
impanel
impaneled
impaneling
impanelled

Literary usage of Impalpability

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"... universal silence, universal impalpability, universal tastelessness, and so forth, are just as much phenomena requiring, in thought, the presence of an ..."

2. Lectures on Greek Philosophy and Other Philosophical Remains of James by James Frederick Ferrier (1866)
"... universal impalpability, universal tastelessness, and so forth. ... universal silence, universal impalpability, universal tastelessness, and so forth, ..."

3. Calcareous Cements: Their Nature and Uses, with Some Observations Upon by Gilbert Richard Redgrave (1895)
"It is interesting to notice here that Aspdin insists upon the reduction of the ingredients to a " state approaching impalpability," and there can be no two ..."

4. Physics of the Ether by S. Tolver Preston (1875)
"These considerations have their direct application in the case of the ether, the remarkable impalpability of which could not be better illustrated than by ..."

5. The Science and Art of the Manufacture of Portland Cement: With Observations by Henry Reid (1877)
"I then take a specific quantity of argillaceous earth or clay, and mix them with water to a state approaching impalpability, either by manual labour or ..."

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