IMPERVIOUSNESS Synonyms

• the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid

• having the strength to withstand attack

• the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

• having the strength to withstand attack

• the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally)

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

• the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events

• the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)

• incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand