impenetrability

impenetrability

noun

Definition of IMPENETRABILITY

the quality or state of being impossible to know, understand, or explain <the impenetrability of her prose is apparently the basis of her appeal to literary snobs>

Synonyms impenetrability, inscrutableness, mysteriousness, numinousness, obscurity, uncanniness

Related Words deepness, profundity; darkness, murkiness, obscurity, shadowiness, vagueness; ambiguity, equivocality, equivocalness; incomprehensibility, unintelligibility, unintelligibleness; inexplicability, inexplicableness; unanswerability; unknowability; abstruseness, abstrusity, esotericism, hermetism, reconditeness

Near Antonyms intelligibility, understandability; clarity, obviousness, plainness, self-evidence, straightforwardness, transparency