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impervious
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  • The pain of losing her, practically as a newlywed, had made him impervious to love all these years.  (source)
    impervious = incapable of being affected
  • So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph,  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being affected
  • Uncle Al gazes on, completely impervious.  (source)
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  • I told him my stomach was impervious to cayenne pepper and most forms of grease,  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being hurt by
  • She was one of those elderly "good sports" preserved by an imperviousness to experience and a good digestion into another generation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • We're a double helix, tight and impervious.  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being affected; or not admitting passage through
  • He takes up the saw again; again it moves up and down, in and out of that unhurried imperviousness as a piston moves in the oil;  (source)
    imperviousness = unaffected
  • When a patient didn't get better on standard therapy, a doctor should suspect that the tb was impervious to some drugs in the regimen and should find out which drugs as quickly as possible and substitute others.  (source)
    impervious = immune (not capable of being affected by)
  • The face looks deaf it has that vacant, posed imperviousness of all well-brought-up girls of the time.†  (source)
  • She babbled on, impervious.  (source)
    impervious = not capable of being affected
  • But Rosedale's natural imperviousness to hints made it easy for him to brush such resistance aside.†  (source)
  • We led the busy eventless lives of three nuns in a barren and poverty-stricken convent: the walls we had were safe, impervious enough, even if it did not matter to the walls whether we ate or not.  (source)
    impervious = not permitting passage through (to those not allowed in)
  • It was punishable by death to cover your face if you were not a Snilfard, since imperviousness and subterfuge were reserved for the nobility.†  (source)
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