impalpability

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Formed as impalpable + -ity; compare the French impalpabilité.

One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners. — Ulysses, James Joyce
But even out of the mouths of their soundest reasoners it is easy to demonstrate the futility, the impalpability of their axioms in general. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe
Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy

intangibility, intangibleness

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