impalpability

One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners.

On his deathbed Eutychius recanted impalpability and Gregory dropped the matter.

But even out of the mouths of their soundest reasoners it is easy to demonstrate the futility, the impalpability of their axioms in general.

The mildness, the impalpability of Scotland's impulse toward nationhood is a problem for the new, limited Parliament; also for a book trying to evoke a Scottish identity.

I then take a specific quantity of argillaceous minerals earth or clay, and mix them with water to a state approaching impalpability, either by manual labour or machinery.

By the favor of the Outsider, Green and the stars (and the Whorl, too) are covered by this lovely cerulean impalpability during the day, so that we cannot see outside.

He has pledged that there should be no litmus test for membership in the court, but to remain true to this pledge would lead him to choose only candidates of the sort of philosophical impalpability that Justice David Souter once exhibited.

These were unusual fish in that they had not howled and climbed up the fish spear to engulf my hands with a maw of ravening fury before melting into a swarm of butterflies and scattering into impalpability against the sky.