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Noun: impalpability  im,pal-pu'bi-lu-tee
  1. The quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch
    "The impalpability of emotions makes them difficult to measure";
    - intangibility, intangibleness
     
  2. Ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind
    "The nebulous impalpability of ideas and trends was preferred at all times to the brute empiricism of humanity"

Derived forms: impalpabilities

Type of: immateriality, imperceptibility, incorporeality