ADJECTIVE
  1. imperceptible to the senses or the mind
    as impalpable as a dream
    impalpable distinctions
    an impalpable cloud
    impalpable shadows
  2. incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
    the intangible constituent of energy
  3. not perceptible to the touch
    an impalpable pulse
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How To Use impalpable In A Sentence

  • These they call orang alus, fine, or impalpable beings, and regard them as possessing the faculty of doing them good or evil, deprecating their wrath as the sense of present misfortunes or apprehension of future prevails in their minds. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
  • Their music surely carries that similar impalpable layer of emotion.
  • In palpation you can discover the size and shape of normally palpable organs, find normally impalpable organs, discover palpable masses that are not normally present, and detect the location and degree of tenderness.
  • It became impalpable, and I said, ‘It's too late, she's gone.’
  • impalpable shadows
  • It's not that they lacked a faith in the impalpable, but rather that the impalpable-love, for example-grew out of the material world and our imaginative associations with it.
  • Here he had seen the mysterious object in the water whose colour, reflecting the steel wall above, was impalpable as sifted cinnamon. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • These drawings adorno contact with real real power and varied assortment varies impalpable awakening and elegant ideas. Ornament Serenity | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • You who listen to me Sunday after Sunday will not suspect me of seeking to minimise either of these two aspects of our Lord's mission and operation, but I do believe that very largely the glad thought of an indwelling Christ, who actually abides and works in our hearts, and is not only for us in the heavens, or with us by some kind of impalpable and metaphorical presence, but in simple, that is to say, in spiritual reality is in our spirits, has faded away from the consciousness of the Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • His own identity was fading into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself, which these dead had one time reared and lived in, was dissolving and dwindling…
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