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impenetrability
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impenetrability
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun impenetrability has 2 senses
- impenetrability(n = noun.attribute) imperviousness - the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.); Array is a kind of quality
- impenetrability(n = noun.attribute) impenetrableness - incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand; Array is a kind of incomprehensibility
Derived form adjective impenetrable1
Antonym: penetrability
CIDE DICTIONARY
impenetrability, n. [Cf. F. impénétrabilité.].
- Quality of being impenetrable. [1913 Webster]
- That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space. [1913 Webster]
- Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
impenetrability
Density
N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.
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