impalpabilityn.
/ɪmpalpəˈbɪlɪti/ The quality of being impalpable or imperceptible to the touch.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun]
incorporality1601
incorporeity1601
impalpability1605
unbodiliness1611
immateriality1629
etherealness1727
ethereality1811
immaterialism1824
etherealism1827
bodilessness1838
incorporeality1846
non-materiality1846
intangibility1847
unfleshlinessa1859
1605 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Exam. Menacing & Disleal Petition 100 The inuisibility and impalpability of Christes body in the sacrament.
a1770 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. (1773) IV. 405 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.
1807 Salmagundi 31 Dec. 397 A young lady whose unparalleled impalpability of waist was the envy of the drawing-room.
a1849 E. A. Poe Mellonta Tauta in Wks. (1864) IV. 293 The futility, the impalpability of their axioms.
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