impracticability
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English
Etymology
From impracticable + -ability.[1]
Noun
impracticability (countable and uncountable, plural impracticabilities)
- The quality or condition of being impracticable.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC:
- 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.
- An impracticable thing.
Antonyms
Translations
the quality or condition of being impracticable
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an impracticable thing
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References
- ^ “impracticability, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
