noun
Meaning 1
The state of being invisible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
invisibility
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noun
Meaning 2
That which is invisible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the quality of not being perceivable by the eye
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: invisibleness
Antonyms: visibility
Broader terms: physical property
Narrower terms: inconspicuousness
History
Etymology
From Middle French invisibilité, from Latin invisibilitas.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: onsigbaarheid — the state of being invisible
- Armenian: անտեսանելիություն (antesaneliutʻyun) — the state of being invisible
- Asturian: invisibilidá — the state of being invisible
- Azerbaijani: görünməzlik — the state of being invisible
- Bulgarian: невидимост (nevidimost) — the state of being invisible
- Catalan: invisibilitat — the state of being invisible
- Czech: neviditelnost — the state of being invisible
- Danish: usynlighed — the state of being invisible
- Dutch: onzichtbaarheid — the state of being invisible
- Esperanto: nevidebleco — the state of being invisible
- Finnish: näkymättömyys — the state of being invisible
- French: invisibilité — the state of being invisible
- Galician: invisibilidade — the state of being invisible
- Georgian: უხილავობა (uxilavoba) — the state of being invisible
- Georgian: უჩინარობა (učinaroba) — the state of being invisible
- German: Unsichtbarkeit — the state of being invisible
- Greek: αόρατο (aórato) — the state of being invisible
- Greek: αναισθησία (anaisthisía) — the state of being invisible
- Greek: αορατότητα (aoratótita) — the state of being invisible
- Hungarian: láthatatlanság — the state of being invisible
- Icelandic: ósýnileiki — the state of being invisible
- Italian: invisibilità — the state of being invisible
- Japanese: 不可視 (fukashi) — the state of being invisible
- Japanese: 無形 (mukei) — the state of being invisible
- Japanese: 潜在 (senzai) — the state of being invisible
- Latin: invīsibilitās — the state of being invisible
- Latin: imperceptibilitas — the state of being invisible
- Lithuanian: nematomumas — the state of being invisible
- Lithuanian: nepastebimumas — the state of being invisible
- Macedonian: невидливост (nevidlivost) — the state of being invisible
- Old English: unġesewenlīcnes — the state of being invisible
- Polish: niewidzialność — the state of being invisible
- Portuguese: invisibilidade — the state of being invisible
- Romanian: invizibilitate — the state of being invisible
- Russian: неви́димость (nevídimostʹ) — the state of being invisible
- Serbo-Croatian: nevìdljivōst — the state of being invisible
- Spanish: invisibilidad — the state of being invisible
- Swahili: hali ya kutoonekana — the state of being invisible
- Swedish: osynlighet — the state of being invisible
- Telugu: అదృశ్యత (adr̥śyata) — the state of being invisible
- Turkish: görünmezlik — the state of being invisible
- Ukrainian: неви́димість (nevýdymistʹ) — the state of being invisible