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‖ imponderabilia, n. pl.|ɪmˌpɒndərəˈbɪlɪə|
[neut. pl. of mod.L. imponderābilis, things that cannot be weighed.]
Imponderables, imponderable factors.
1925W. J. Locke Great Pandolfo xxiv. 300 A man beaten not by Fortune, not by the hostility of material influences, but by spiritual imponderabilia almost on the borderland of sanity and unreason. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 283/2 The imponderabilia that constitute ‘Toryism’. 1938E. Pound Let. 12 May (1971) 316, I think Eliot would prefer your emendation. At any rate we are on ground of imponderabilia. 1942E. Waugh Put out More Flags ii. 111 Every week we have chamber music. There are certain imponderabilia at the Old Mill which, to be crude, have their market value. 1957Times 17 Dec. 9/7 Tactically, the chiefs are in a weak position: but nobody can say what psychological imponderabilia may not be raked up if the attack is carried further. |