immeability

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/ˌɪmiəˈbɪlɪti/

noun

Inability to pass through or to permit passage.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounimmeability (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableInability to pass through or to permit passage.

    Immeability of the Blood in the extream Capillaries

    1747, Robert Douglas, An Essay Concerning the Generation of Heat in Animals
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    From this phlegm proceed white cold tumours, viscidity, and consequently immeability of the juices.

    1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: impassableness

Synonyms & antonyms

nounInability to pass through or to permit passage.

Origin

  1. Latinmeabilis“passable”
  2. Englishimmeability

From im- (“not”) + Latin meabilis (“passable”), from meare (“to pass”).

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Chicago

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