impalpable
adjective
not palpable; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch; intangible.
impalpability
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a word derived from
impalpable.
Example Sentences
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In his new show at the Reese Palley Gallery, his work, which once was austere almost to the point of impalpability, has taken on a peculiar density and resonance.
From Time Magazine Archive
One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Probably this bottle's prominence in the unpleasantness that germinated among the servants who remained at the Towers after the departure of the Earl and Countess was due to the extreme impalpability of other grievances.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
They represent metaphorically, however, certain important qualities of verse which, with the exception of rime, cannot from their very impalpability be formally explained, but can only be suggested and partially described.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
Not often subtle in impulse or recondite in mood, his art has nothing of the impalpability, the drifting, iridescent vapours of Debussy, nothing of the impenetrable backgrounds of Brahms.
From Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman
