imperviousness
- a word derived from impervious.
Example Sentences
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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
But it perhaps also bred a sense of imperviousness that has now led him astray.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2022
And yet what’s expected of Biles upon arrival here is imperviousness, an ability to ball all that up and toss it to the side.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
Eril-Fane explained its properties to them—its imperviousness to everything, all heat, all tools.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
