impracticabilityn.
/ɪmˌpraktɪkəˈbɪlɪti/ 1. The quality or condition of being impracticable.
a. Incapability of being done or carried out; practical impossibility.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [noun]
unfeasableness1639
impracticableness1653
unfeasibleness1653
infeasibleness1654
infeasibility1655
unfeasibility1655
unpracticableness1660
impracticability1747
no-goism1850
unworkableness1877
unworkability1881
impracticalness1905
impracticality1916
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 524/2 Because of the impracticability of a march over the precipices.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 293 The impracticability of foreseeing all the possible combinations of the parts.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. iii. 261 The impracticability of the attempt.
b. Incapability of being put to its purposed use, or of being dealt with; unserviceableness, unmanageableness; also intractability, stubbornness.
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society > travel > [noun] > ability to be travelled through or over > inability
unpassableness1645
impracticablenessa1715
impassableness1727
impracticability1766
impassability1772
imperviability1821
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy II. xxxiv. 183 Exposed to a variety of disagreeable adventures from the impracticability of the road.
1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II II. 53 These great regular armies could not pursue them..from the impracticability of the country.
1864 Realm 30 Mar. 4 A track..which, for steepness and apparent impracticability, more resembled the bed of a mountain torrent.
2. with an and plural. Something impracticable; a practical impossibility.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [noun] > that which is
impracticabilitya1797
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. ii. 40 Lord Hardwicke..had clogged it with impracticabilities, absurdities, and hardships.
1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 559 He was equally an impracticability while armour was employed.
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