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invisibility|ɪnvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. invīsibilitās (Tertull.): see next and -ity. Cf. F. invisibleté (Palsgr., 1530), invisibilité (17th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The quality or condition of being invisible; incapacity of being seen.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xvii. (1634) 689 marg., Though the invisibilitie of the body of Christ were granted. 1577Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 22 She seemeth..to enter into a Cloud of invisibility, and so disappear. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 137 Invisible by his essence, his invisibility was the primeval night which preceded time and light. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. iv, The invisibility of men's motive.
b. with pl.: An invisible entity.
a1668Sir W. Waller Div. Medit. (1882) 28 Those invisibilities which mortal eye hath not seen. 1895Expositor Feb. 148 The invisibilities which underlie the visibilities of the universe. |