impalpable

Is it matter, a physical thing, or is it more like energy, something impalpable?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

A sense conundrum: blue as Summer sky Yet hazy, thin, impalpable, a clair- Obscur of dreamy stuff some latter-day Tech-savvy alchemist might think to brew Or strange sea-beast secrete within its shell.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2022

Through their lenses, we see different visions of the artist in his studio, surrounded by his attempts to capture something solid but impalpable about humanity.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022

I had been pushed and pulled by the dominant forces of that place, some impalpable and some visible, as it formed and forced me into the imperfect person who eventually became a mother.

From Salon ● May 2, 2020

And, yet, out of it all, over and above all that had happened, impalpable but real, there remained to him a queer sense of power.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright