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impenetrability

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Synonyms and Antonyms of impenetrability

the quality or state of being impossible to know, understand, or explain

The impenetrability of her prose makes it unpopular with students.

Synonyms of impenetrability

inscrutability, inscrutableness, mysteriousness, obscurity, uncanniness

Words Related to impenetrability

deepness, profundity

darkness, murkiness, obscurity, shadowiness, vagueness

ambiguity, equivocality, equivocalness

incomprehensibility, unintelligibility, unintelligibleness

inexplicability, inexplicableness

unanswerability

abstruseness, abstrusity, esotericism, hermetism, reconditeness

Near Antonyms of impenetrability

intelligibility, understandability

clarity, obviousness, plainness, self-evidence, straightforwardness, transparency

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