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Definitions: Impenetrability |
ImpenetrabilityNoun1. Resistance to penetration by a liquid. 2. Incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "impenetrability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Synonyms: ImpenetrabilitySynonyms: impenetrableness (n), imperviousness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: penetrability (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Density | Noun: density, solidity; solidness. Adjective: impenetrability, impermeability; incompressibility; imporosity; cohesion; constipation, consistence, spissitude. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Impenetrability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impenetrability" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "impenetrability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | papërshkueshmëri, padepërtueshmëri (impermeability, inscrutability, tightness). (various references) | |
Arabic | اللاإختراقية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | непроницаемост (impermeability, opaqueness). (various references) | |
Czech | neproniknutelnost. (various references) | |
French | impénétrabilité (impenetrable). (various references) | |
German | unergründlichkeit (inscrutability), uneinnehmbarkeit (invulnerability), undurchsichtigkeit (deviousness, non-transparency, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness), undurchschaubarkeit, undurchlässigkeit (impermeability), undurchdringlichkeit. (various references) | |
Greek | αδιαπέραστο (imperviousness), αδιαχώρητο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אי ח"ירות, אטימות (dullness, obtuseness, opacity, opaqueness, tightness, waterproof). (various references) | |
Hungarian | áthatolhatatlanság (imperviousness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不可入性 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふかにゅうせい. (various references) | |
Manx | neuchassanid (impassableness), do-feayshlaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impenetrabilityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prestes a acontecer (immiscible). (various references) | |
Romanian | impenetrabilitate (impenetrableness), caracter impenetrabil (impenetrableness). (various references) | |
Russian | непроницаемость (impermeability). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neprodornost, neprobojnost, nepristupačnost (inaccessibility). (various references) | |
Spanish | impenetrabilidad. (various references) | |
Swedish | ogenomtränglighet. (various references) | |
Turkish | girilemezlik, delinememe, anlaşılamama. (various references) | |
Ukranian | непрохідність (impracticability, obstruction, occlusion), непроникність, безпросвітність. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính không xuyên qua được tính không thể dò được (impenetrableness), tính không thể tiếp thu được (impenetrableness), tính không thể qua được (impassability, impassableness, impenetrableness), tính không thể hiểu thấu được (impenetrableness, unsearchableness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "impenetrability" (pronounced 'Im*pen`e*tra*bil"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. 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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-i-i-l-m-n-p-r-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: amitriptyline, penetrability. | |
-3 letters: impenetrably, permeability, printability. | |
-4 letters: bipartitely, impatiently, partibility, rentability. | |
-5 letters: impartible, impartibly, inimitable, inimitably, intimately, planimeter, reinitiate, remittable, tenability, terminable, terminably, timberline, tryptamine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 65 6E 65 74 72 61 62 69 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. . -. . - .-. .- -... .. .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p e n e t r a b i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 0065 006E 0065 0074 0072 0061 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437982718071868467687578758691 |
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