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
But even out of the mouths of their soundest reasoners it is easy to demonstrate the futility, the impalpability of their axioms in general.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Above those closed eyelids, where vision has taken the place of sight, a sepulchral disintegration of outlines and appearances dilates itself into impalpability.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Perhaps one day, between them, they would break down the barrier, the strength of which seemed to lie in its very flimsiness, its impalpability.
From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
