impenetrability

impenetrability englannista suomeksi

1. läpipääsemättömyys

2. vaikeaselkoisuus

0. Substantiivi

impenetrability englanniksi

1. The characteristic of being impenetrable; invulnerability.

2. 1651, uncredited translator, ''Naturall Philosophie Reformed by Divine Light, or, A Synopsis of Physicks'' by (w), London: Thomas Pierrepont, Chapter 4, “Of the tangible quality,”http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34110.0001.001

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.

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1904|author=Joseph Conrad|title=Nostromo|section=Part 2, Chapter Five|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2021/2021-h/2021-h.htm

4. 1924, (w), ''(w)'', Part I, Chapter 7, in ''(w)'', New York: Knopf, 1950, p. 137,https://archive.org/details/paradesend00ford

He watched intently the place where she must appear; it would give him pointers about the impenetrability of mist to the eye.

5. 1991, (w), ''(w)'' (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.

6. {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=J. K. Rowling|title=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|location=New York|publisher=Scholastic|chapter=13|page=247