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perviousness

NOUN
  1. the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)

How To Use perviousness In A Sentence

  • Whatever dramatic effect is achieved by Batman's vicious "interrogation" is dulled by the film's general bloodlessness and the Joker's seeming imperviousness, etc. On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight
  • One consequence was the Chinese determination "to prove their imperviousness to outside pressure.
  • The measurement of actual works also explained that the use of compound geotextile in rock fill dam surface can reduce the amount of leakage water by 60%, the effects of imperviousness are obvious.
  • Taking as a model the expression 'transparent' for the perviousness of a substance to light, we may say that the air, when in a state of acoustic vibration, becomes 'trans-audient' for astral impulses, and that the nature of these vibrations determines which particular impulses are let through. Man or Matter
  • This kind of logic lies behind all conspiracy theories, with their infuriating imperviousness to counter-argument.
  • I respectfully suggest that "cult like behavior" is defined as zealous advocacy that leads to magical thinking and imperviousness to fact, you simply cannot beat a Hillary true-believer. Time Poll: Obama The Stronger Dem Against McCain
  • They were wrapped in an uncongenial and frosty imperviousness. THE PRODIGAL FATHER
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