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The smug refusal of a thing to let anythinga sword, an idea, a hintget inside.

means The quality of being impossible to enter, pierce, pass through, or understand.

from From Latin penetrare, to enter or pass into, plus the in- of negationliterally the state of nothing getting in. Humpty Dumpty famously redefined it on a whim in Through the Looking-Glass.

Humpty's glossHe used it to mean enough talk for now.
Physics flavorTwo solid objects cannot share the same space.
Armor senseMedieval plate aspired to it, rarely achieved it.
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