impermeability
Example Sentences
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There’s an obvious receptiveness to owning your own experiences, but an impermeability to what anyone else has to say about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
It is one that is common to all those considered the finest defensive players of their generation: a sense of immutability and impermeability, that there is no way through and no way past.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
We tested the weather impermeability of the exterior lights by plugging them in and sinking the strands of lights into a 3-gallon bucket of water.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2018
Defined so long by impermeability, Ben Roethlisberger plunged Sunday afternoon into vulnerability.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2017
But it did not take her long to realize that he was as insensible to her begging as the colonel would have been, and that they were armored by the same impermeability of affection.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
