Meaning & use

invisibility

noun·Academic

The state or quality of being impossible to see, either literally or in a figurative sense.

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The scientist joked that his experiments were still far from achieving true invisibility.

Working the night shift gave him a strange sense of invisibility among his coworkers.

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Often used figuratively to describe feeling overlooked or unnoticed, not only physical transparency.

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