Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Impenetrability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
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- noun The quality of being
impenetrable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand
Etymologies
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Examples
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I had a tough time reading through your impenetrableness.
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The highest joy in this life she is not capable of: but then she saves herself many griefs, by her impenetrableness — yet, for ten times the pain that such a sensibility is attended with, would I not part with the pleasure it brings with it.
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This impenetrableness, my dear, is to be put among the shades in his character.
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The steamers called eerily, out of the distance a heart-broken cry like no other thing on earth, suddenly near at hand a hoot terrific; but nothing was to be seen except rarely when out of the yellow impenetrableness a hull rose abruptly, a vague dark mass almost within touching distance.
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How can we other wise explain the settled, deliberate career of sin in which some men live -- the perfect impenetrableness of heart and conscience with which they hold out against all warnings, fears, and chastisements; as, for instance, in sensuality, falsehood, or pride?
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If he speaks, he is guilty of a sort of libel on his brother-electors, who are hereby implicitly reproached by him for their impenetrableness and cowardice.
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The shades of October were far advanced, and she was still a prey to the cruel fluctuations of hope and disappointment that the uncertainty and impenetrableness of Mr. Willoughby subjected her to.
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His appearance and general behaviour might have strongly interested all persons in his favour; but the coldness of his address, and the impenetrableness of his sentiments, seemed to forbid those demonstrations of kindness to which one might otherwise have been prompted.
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I had no knowledge of this art; but neither custom, nor law, nor the impenetrableness of the mystery, required me to serve a seven years 'apprenticeship to it.
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This impenetrableness, my dear, is to be put among the shades in his character.
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