intangibility

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Compare French intangibilité.

The most rigorous primness of behavior does not daunt them, nor the assertion of an icily virtuous intangibility. — The Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster
Pearl either saw and responded to her mother’s feelings, or herself felt the remoteness and intangibility that had fallen around the minister. — The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
And if this strict scientific intangibility steeped even the shelves laden with lyrics and ballads and the tables laden with drink and tobacco, it goes without saying that yet more of such heathen holiness protected the other shelves that held the specialist’s library, and the other tables that sustained the frail and even fairylike instruments of chemistry or mechanics. — The wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

intangibleness, impalpability

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