PERMEABILITIES Antonyms

• the amount per unit size

• the spatial property of being crowded together

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

• incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand

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

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

• 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

• deliberate interference

• 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 state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape

• the consistency of a solid

• the quality of being substantial or having substance

• the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally