See impenetrability on Wiktionary
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"text": "1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., Part I, Chapter 7, in Parade's End, New York: Knopf, 1950, p. 137,\nHe watched intently the place where she must appear; it would give him pointers about the impenetrability of mist to the eye."
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"text": "If everybody came to agree that stories should be told this clearly, the professors of literature would be out of a job, and the writers of obscure, encoded fiction would be, not honored, but pitied for their impenetrability."
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