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Impalpable
adj
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Adjective
- 1 Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible.
"But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking."
- 2 Not able to be perceived, or able to be perceived only with difficulty; insubstantial, thin.
"On the benches lay figures covered with yellow linen, on which a fine and impalpable dust had gathered in the course of ages, but nothing like to the extent that one would have anticipated, for in these deep-hewn caves there is no material to turn to dust."
- 3 Not easily grasped (mentally) or understood.
"What is happiness, anyhow? Is this one of its hours, or the like of it?—so impalpable—a mere breath, an evanescent tinge?"
Adjective
- 1 imperceptible to the senses or the mind wordnet
- 2 not perceptible to the touch wordnet
- 3 incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch wordnet
Etymology
From Middle French impalpable, from Medieval Latin impalpabilis. See im- + palpable.
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