imperviousness
- a word derived from impervious.
Example Sentences
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Maybe she had a false sense of imperviousness, given all the times the house on Roca Chica Drive escaped, unscathed.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
Real neighborhoods continued to succumb around me, though, each one chipping away at that irrational feeling of imperviousness.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2025
Mav initially at least can maintain an imperviousness to fear by remaining playful.
From Salon • May 28, 2022
Wall Street’s imperviousness to bad news, which enabled stocks to double in value from their pandemic panic lows, may be starting to crack.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2021
Eril-Fane explained its properties to them—its imperviousness to everything, all heat, all tools.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
