impracticablenessn.
/ɪmˈpraktɪkəb(ə)lnɪs/ The quality or condition of being impracticable.
a. = impracticability n. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [noun]
unfeasableness1639
impracticableness1653
unfeasibleness1653
infeasibleness1654
infeasibility1655
unfeasibility1655
unpracticableness1660
impracticability1747
no-goism1850
unworkableness1877
unworkability1881
impracticalness1905
impracticality1916
1653 O. Cromwell Speech 4 July in Writings & Speeches (1945) (modernized text) III. 59 Having had this discourse concerning the impracticableness of the thing.
1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 449 The impracticableness of keeping her alive in prison.
1853 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1858) I. xv. 52 The impracticableness of passing this desert.
b. = impracticability n. 1b.
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society > travel > [noun] > ability to be travelled through or over > inability
unpassableness1645
impracticablenessa1715
impassableness1727
impracticability1766
impassability1772
imperviability1821
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time, Q. Anne (T. Suppl.) The greatest difficulty in these sieges was from the impracticableness of the ground.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. iii. 48 No clerical magistrate had..less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs.
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