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Impalpable

adjective

Incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch. Synonym: intangible.

Imperceptible to the senses or the mind. "Impalpable shadows" , "Impalpable distinctions" , "As impalpable as a dream"

Not perceptible to the touch.

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"Impalpable" Quotes from Famous Books

... and empty paunch. One felt that this man's mind was destroyed, eaten by his thoughts, by one thought, just as a fruit is eaten by a worm. His craze, his idea was there in his brain, insistent, harassing, destructive. It wasted his frame little by little. It—the invisible, impalpable, intangible, immaterial idea—was mining his health, drinking his blood, ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... occurred at dawn, when every one but the sentries was asleep. But even at that hour the harbour was strictly guarded. An enemy, to enter unseen, would have to be impalpable, invisible.... ...

— The Destroyer - A Tale of International Intrigue • Burton Egbert Stevenson

... there was a powerful machine which could work infallibly from the small to the large and the large to the small. With Whistling Dan there was no suggestion at all of mental care. She could not imagine him worrying over a problem. His knowledge was not even communicable by words; it was more impalpable than the instinct of a woman; and there was about him the wisdom and the coldness of Black ...

— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

... pleasure "that the chief part of whatever scientific merit this journal and the other works of the author may possess, has been derived from studying the well-known and admirable 'Principles of Geology.'" He was already noting the diffusion of minute organisms and impalpable dust by winds,[4] and was much surprised to find in some dust collected on a vessel 300 miles from land particles of stone more than a thousandth of an inch square. After this, he remarks, one need not be surprised at the diffusion of the far lighter and ...

— Life of Charles Darwin • G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

... fresh from the Court of Navarre, and smelling of the lore of their foreign 'Academe,' or hot from the battles of continental freedom,—it was there, in those reunions, that our Poet caught those gracious airs of his—those delicate, thick-flowering refinements—those fine impalpable points of courtly breeding—those aristocratic notions that haunt him everywhere. It was there that he picked up his various knowledge of men and manners, his acquaintance with foreign life, his bits of travelled ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

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