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PENETRANCY Antonyms

There are 10 antonyms of the word penetrancy. (opposite meanings)

Best Opposite Words For PENETRANCY

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barrier
nounn
noun

• a structure or object that impedes free movement

• any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective

• anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access

blockage
nounn
noun

• the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• the act of blocking

hindrance
nounn
noun

• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

• the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

impenetrability
nounn
noun

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

• incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand

impermeability
nounn
noun

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

imperviousness
nounn
noun

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

obstruction
nounn
noun

• any structure that makes progress difficult

• the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction

• something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted

• the act of obstructing

• getting in someone's way

refusal
nounn
noun

• the act of refusing

• a message refusing to accept something that is offered

resistance
nounn
noun

• 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

repellence
nounn
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Alternatives for BARRIER

Alternatives for BLOCKAGE

Alternatives for HINDRANCE

Alternatives for IMPENETRABILITY

Alternatives for IMPERMEABILITY

Alternatives for IMPERVIOUSNESS

Alternatives for OBSTRUCTION

Alternatives for REFUSAL

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