Impenetrability

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being impenetrable.
  • noun. The inability of two bodies to occupy the same space at the same time.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The character or condition of being impenetrable; incapability of being penetrated, in any sense of that word.
  • noun. In physics, specifically, that property of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time; that property of matter by which it excludes all other matter from the space it occupies.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Quality of being impenetrable.
  • noun. That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.
  • noun. Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The characteristic of being impenetrable; invulnerability.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)
  • noun. incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand
  • Word Usage
    "` I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life. '"
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