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noun

Impenetrability n.

Quality of being impenetrable.

(Physics) That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.

Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.

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Etymology of 'Impenetrability'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Impenetrability" Quotes from Famous Books

... himself and the Lanark cotton-mills. He carries this idea backwards and forwards with him from Glasgow to London, without allowing anything for attrition, and expects to find it in the same state of purity and perfection in the latter place as at the former. He acquires a wonderful velocity and impenetrability in his undaunted transit. Resistance to him is vain, while the whirling motion of the mail-coach remains in ...

— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt

... however, of never exhibiting too much of himself; and when hurried on by a passion seemingly too fierce and furious for restraint, he would suddenly curb himself in, while a sharp and scornful smile would curl his lips, as if he felt a consciousness, not only of his own powers of command, but of his impenetrability to ...

— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

... they reached the house at last; the silence and impenetrability of this woman by his side, whom he had always thought so soft and ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... the quarterlies. He must have felt that his intellect was cruelly wasted in talking claptrap and platitude to suit the thick comprehensions of his party; and the huge dead weight of the invincible impenetrability to ideas of ordinary mankind must have lain heavy upon his soul. How many Tadpoles, one would like to know, still haunt the Carlton Club, or throng the ministerial benches, and how many Rigbys have forced their way into the Cabinet? That is one of the state secrets which will hardly be divulged ...

— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen

... temper of the Emperor, that was good. Hugo says of him: "From the morning his impenetrability had been smiling, and on June 18, 1815, this profound soul, coated with granite, was radiant. The man who had been sombre at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest predestined men offer these contradictions; for our ...

— Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century - Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World • Various

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