intangibility

noun

in·​tangibility (¦)in‧ 

ən‧+

1

: the quality or state of being intangible

there is a certain intangibility about this problem

2

: something that is intangible : an intangible element

fond of the pretty intangibilities of romance

—Hugh Miller, born 1891

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