penetrability

Questions about penetrability

What does penetrability mean?

penetrability means "the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)".

How many syllables are in penetrability?

penetrability has 6 syllables and divides as pe-ne-tra-bi-li-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for penetrability?

Close synonyms include perviousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of penetrability?

The recorded antonyms are impenetrability.

Is penetrability a common word?

penetrability is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.