impracticability

noun — 2 senses

impracticability

noun

Etymology From impracticable + -ability.

1

The quality or condition of being impracticable.

  • It is more than possible that the distress I was now in for money, and the impracticability of going on in this manner, might have restored me at once to my senses and to my studies, had I opened my eyes before I became involved in debts from which I saw no hopes of ever extricating myself.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
2

An impracticable thing.

Antonyms
practicability

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