Meanings
- 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 Animals1 more example
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 […], →OCLCSynonyms: impassableness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounInability to pass through or to permit passage.
Origin
- Latinmeabilis“passable”
- Englishimmeability
From im- (“not”) + Latin meabilis (“passable”), from meare (“to pass”).
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