invisibility

English

Etymology

From Middle French invisibilité, from Latin invisibilitas.

Noun

invisibility (countable and uncountable, plural invisibilities)

1. The state of being invisible.
2. That which is invisible.

Synonyms

• hiddenness
• latency

Antonyms

• visibility

Related terms

• invisible
• invisibleness
• invisibly

Translations

the state of being invisible

• Afrikaans: onsigbaarheid
• Asturian: invisibilidá f
• Bulgarian: невидимост (bg) f (nevidimost)
• Catalan: invisibilitat f
• Czech: neviditelnost f
• Danish: usynlighed c
• Dutch: onzichtbaarheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: nevidebleco
• Finnish: näkymättömyys (fi)
• French: invisibilité (fr) f
• Galician: invisibilidade (gl) f
• Georgian: უხილავობა (uxilavoba), უჩინარობა (učinaroba)
• German: Unsichtbarkeit (de) f
• Greek: αόρατο (el) (aórato), αναισθησία (el) (anaisthisía)
• Hungarian: láthatatlanság (hu)
• Icelandic: ósýnileiki m
• Italian: invisibilità (it) f
• Japanese: 不可視 (ja) (fukashi), 無形 (ja) (mukei), 潜在 (ja) (senzai)
• Latin: invīsibilitās f
• Macedonian: невидливост f (nevidlivost)
• Old English: unġesewenlīcnes f
• Polish: niewidzialność (pl) f
• Portuguese: invisibilidade f
• Romanian: invizibilitate (ro) f
• Russian: неви́димость (ru) f (nevídimostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: nevìdljivōst (sh) f
• Spanish: invisibilidad (es) f
• Swahili: hali ya kutoonekana
• Swedish: osynlighet (sv) c
• Telugu: అదృశ్యత (te) (adr̥śyata)
• Turkish: görünmezlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: неви́димість f (nevýdymistʹ)

See also

• transparency

References

• “invisibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.