Associations to the word «Imponderable»

Wiktionary

IMPONDERABLE, adjective. Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
IMPONDERABLE, noun. (physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.

Dictionary definition

IMPONDERABLE, noun. A factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed; "human behavior depends on many imponderables".
IMPONDERABLE, adjective. Difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne