impenetrableness
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From impenetrable + -ness.
Noun
[edit]impenetrableness (uncountable)
- The quality of being impenetrable.
- 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets[1]:
- I need not add, that to a mind of elegance and sensibility, the emblematical allusion which this dress would carry to the secrecy and impenetrableness of the person that wears it, must be the source of a delightful and exquisite sensation.
- 1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat[2]:
- The stars, the night, the dark blue of heaven hid the secret in their impenetrableness.