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impalpability|ɪmpælpəˈbɪlɪtɪ| [f. next + -ity. Cf. F. impalpabilité.] The quality of being impalpable or imperceptible to the touch.
1605M. Sutcliffe Briefe Exam. (1606) 100 The inuisibility and impalpability of Christes body in the sacrament. 1751–73Jortin Eccl. Hist. (1846) II. xxxviii. 161 A curious dispute, whether the bodies of the righteous, after the resurrection, should be solid, or thinner than the air? Gregory was for the palpability, and Eutychius for the impalpability. 1807W. Irving Salmag (1824) 361 A young lady whose unparalleled impalpability of waist was the envy of the drawing-room. a1849Poe Mellouba Tauba Wks. 1864 IV. 293 The futility, the impalpability of their axioms. |