impenetrability

== English == === Noun === impenetrability (countable and uncountable, plural impenetrabilities) The characteristic of being impenetrable; invulnerability. 1651, uncredited translator, Naturall Philosophie Reformed by Divine Light, or, A Synopsis of Physicks by J. A. Comenius, London: Thomas Pierrepont, Chapter 4, “Of the tangible quality,”[1] Humidity (or humour) is the liquidnesse of the parts of the body, and aptnesse to be penetrated by one another; siccity on the contrary is a consistency, and an impenetrability of the parts of the body. 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., Part I, Chapter 7, in Parade's End, New York: Knopf, 1950, p. 137,[3] He watched intently the place where she must appear; it would give him pointers about the impenetrability of mist to the eye. 1991, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (introduction to revised edition), Tor 1991 If everybody came to agree that stories should be told this clearly, the professors of literature would be out of a job, and the writers of obscure, encoded fiction would be, not honored, but pitied for their impenetrability. ==== Translations ====