as in mysteriousness
the quality or state of being impossible to know, understand, or explain
the impenetrability of her prose is apparently the basis of her appeal to literary snobs
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Russell considers how Cruise’s longevity — the sheer volume of years he’s spent as Hollywood’s most successful weirdo — has given him a degree of impenetrability.
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Chloe Walker, Longreads, 1 July 2022
Multiple civilizations of Indigenous people have called the canyon home thanks to its abundance of water, fertile soils, and fortress-like impenetrability from intruders.
—Dr. Len Necefer, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2022
So the impenetrability of legal texts is due to psycholinguistic factors.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
One begins to think in terms of doors, hatches, coffers and windows, and yet there is often a sense of impenetrability, as if the walls suggest the possibility of passage yet limit egress.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
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Chloe Walker, Longreads, 1 July 2022
Multiple civilizations of Indigenous people have called the canyon home thanks to its abundance of water, fertile soils, and fortress-like impenetrability from intruders.
—Dr. Len Necefer, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2022
So the impenetrability of legal texts is due to psycholinguistic factors.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
One begins to think in terms of doors, hatches, coffers and windows, and yet there is often a sense of impenetrability, as if the walls suggest the possibility of passage yet limit egress.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
See all Example Sentences for impenetrability
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“Impenetrability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impenetrability. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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