Thesaurus: impalpable
Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch.
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Definitions
- a. Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch.
- a. Not material; intangible; incorporeal.
- a. Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.
- adj. incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
- adj. imperceptible to the senses or the mind
- adj. not perceptible to the touch
- 1. Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch. "Impalpable powder." Boyle. 2. Not material; intangible; incorporeal. "Impalpable, void, and bodiless." Holland. 3. Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.
- j:100 a. imperceptible to the senses or the mind s. not perceptible to the touch