Impalpably
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In an impalpable manner.
"These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for."
Adverb
- 1 not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness wordnet
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More examples"These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for."
Etymology
From impalpable + -ly.