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impalpable

[ im-pal-puh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. not palpable; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch; intangible.
  2. difficult for the mind to grasp readily or easily:

    impalpable distinctions.

  3. (of powder) so fine that when rubbed between the fingers no grit is felt.


impalpable

/ ɪˈæəə /

adjective

  1. imperceptible, esp to the touch

    impalpable shadows

  2. difficult to understand; abstruse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ貹貹ˈٲ, noun
  • ˈ貹貹, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·貹p·i·ٲ noun
  • ·貹p· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of impalpable1

First recorded in 1500–10; im- 2 + palpable
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“Many physicists did not like it because they called it impalpable and a little bit mystical,” Nesteruk told Salon in a phone interview.

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Through their lenses, we see different visions of the artist in his studio, surrounded by his attempts to capture something solid but impalpable about humanity.

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But how the squishy, pinkish-gray, wrinkled mass of the physical brain gives rise to these impalpable experiences remains a mystery.

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Afterward, as in Vienna, property relations were forever altered, which had an impalpable but unmistakable effect on attitudes.

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The smell and taste of things, Proust wrote, hold in the “tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence the vast structure of recollection.”

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