intangibilityn.
/ɪnˌtandʒɪˈbɪlɪti/ a. The quality of being intangible.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun]
obscuritya1522
incomprehensibility1598
entangledness1611
unconceivableness1611
unsearchableness1611
indiscernibleness1649
inscrutability1654
undiscoverableness1656
unscrutableness1657
unimaginableness1659
inconceivableness1661
unintelligibility1661
imperscrutableness1664
unknowableness1664
unintelligibleness1678
unfathomableness1690
inscrutableness1727
incognoscibility1824
uncognoscibility1827
unconjecturability1827
impenetrability1847
inconceivability1847
intangibility1847
untraceableness1856
incognizabilityc1860
incomprehensibleness1862
unknowability1863
unthinkability1865
elusiveness1873
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun]
incorporality1601
incorporeity1601
impalpability1605
unbodiliness1611
immateriality1629
etherealness1727
ethereality1811
immaterialism1824
etherealism1827
bodilessness1838
incorporeality1846
non-materiality1846
intangibility1847
unfleshlinessa1859
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.
1848 Fraser's Mag. 37 99 There is an intangibility about all the charges that are made against her.
1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams ii. vii. 184 Its [his shadow's] intangibility feeds his awe and wonder.
b. Inviolability.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > inviolability
inviolableness1611
intangibility1783
inviolability1793
infrangibility1899
1783 C. J. Fox Mem. & Corr. (1853) II. 102 I beg of gentlemen to be aware of the lengths to which their arguments upon the intangibility of this charter may be carried.
1929 Times 13 Aug. 10/2 There has been too much talk..of the intangibility of the Young Plan.
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