impenetrable
adjective
not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
impenetrableness
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a word derived from
impenetrable.
Example Sentences
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Leverich shrugged his heavy shoulders at the bright impenetrableness that was like a shining armor.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
If he speaks, he is guilty of a sort of libel on his brother-electors, who are hereby implicitly reproached by him for their impenetrableness and cowardice.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin
I had no knowledge of this art; but neither custom, nor law, nor the impenetrableness of the mystery, required me to serve a seven years' apprenticeship to it.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
This impenetrableness, my dear, is to be put among the shades in his character.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson
In a coal-mine one loses his sense of direction, for there is no heaven above, no earth beneath—nothing but silence and black impenetrableness.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
