invisibility
Use Invisibility in a sentence
ə adjective
1.
not visible; not perceptible by the eye: invisible fluid.
2.
withdrawn from or out of sight; hidden: an invisible seam.
3.
not perceptible or discernible by the mind: invisible differences.
4.
not ordinarily found in financial statements or reflected in statistics or a listing: Goodwill is an invisible asset to a business.
5.
concealed from public knowledge.
noun
6.
an invisible thing or being.
7.
the invisible, the unseen or spiritual world.
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invisible (ɪnˈvɪzəbəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | not visible; not able to be perceived by the eye: invisible rays |
| 2. | concealed from sight; hidden |
| 3. | not easily seen or noticed: invisible mending |
| 4. | kept hidden from public view; secret; clandestine |
| 5. | economics of or relating to services rather than goods in relation to the invisible balance: invisible earnings |
| —n | |
| 6. | economics an invisible item of trade; service |
| invisi'bility | |
| —n | |
| in'visibleness | |
| —n | |
| in'visibly | |
| —adv | |
| invisible (ɪnˈvɪzəbəl) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | not visible; not able to be perceived by the eye: invisible rays |
| 2. | concealed from sight; hidden |
| 3. | not easily seen or noticed: invisible mending |
| 4. | kept hidden from public view; secret; clandestine |
| 5. | economics of or relating to services rather than goods in relation to the invisible balance: invisible earnings |
| —n | |
| 6. | economics an invisible item of trade; service |
| invisi'bility | |
| —n | |
| in'visibleness | |
| —n | |
| in'visibly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
invisible
1340, from O.Fr. invisible (13c.), from L. invisibilis "unseen, invisible," from in- "not" + visibilis (see visible).
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Example sentences
Once the sun began spilling through the buildings and the workforce thinned from exhaustion, my invisibility was blown.
What strikes me in both the article and the comments, some of them anyway, is the invisibility of the students.
We took some license on invisibility cloaks and the anti-gravity implementations.
After five years of steady progress, scientists are now edging closer and closer to mastering real-world invisibility.
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