Impenetrability

Quick meaning: Impenetrability is a noun meaning The characteristic of being impenetrable; invulnerability.

Meaning

The characteristic of being impenetrable; invulnerability.

Example Sentences

What does Don Carlos Gould think of that? But, of course, with his English impenetrability, nobody can tell what he thinks.

If everybody came to agree that stories should be told this clearly, the professors of literature would be out of a job, and the writers of obscure, encoded fiction would be, not honored, but pitied for their impenetrability.

1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., Part I, Chapter 7, in Parade's End, New York: Knopf, 1950, p. 137, He watched intently the place where she must appear; it would give him pointers about the impenetrability of mist to the eye.

As he passed gleaming wooden door after gleaming wooden door, each bearing a small plaque with the owner’s name and occupation upon it, the might of the Ministry, its complexity, its impenetrability, seemed to force itself upon him so that the plan he had been carefully concocting with Ron and Hermione over the past four weeks seemed laughably childish.

Word Forms

• impenetrabilities

Synonyms for impenetrability

Depending on context, synonyms include imperviousness, impenetrableness.

Antonyms for impenetrability

Common opposites include perviousness, penetrability.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imperviousness, impenetrableness, impregnability, imperviableness, imperviability, invulnerableness.

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