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impenetrableness en · NOUN

Etymology

From impenetrable + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being impenetrable.
    • I need not add, that to a mind of elegance and sensibility, the emblematical allusion which this dress would carry to the secrecy and impenetrableness of the person that wears it, must be the source of a delightful and exquisite sensation. 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
    • The stars, the night, the dark blue of heaven hid the secret in their impenetrableness. 1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat: