insurmountability

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English

Etymology

From in- +‎ surmount +‎ -ability.

Noun

insurmountability (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being insurmountable.
    • 1877, John Joseph Henry, Account of Arnold's Campaign Against Quebec‎, J. Munsell, page 171:
      But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, the difficulties of the ascent, which is very steep, would be increased even to insurmountability.
    • 1885, George Washington Cable, Richard Hooker WIlmer, Dr. Sevier‎, J. R. Osgood and Company, page 195:
      He dried his eyes. His aunt saw the insurmountability of the difficulty, and they drowned feeling in an affectionate glass of green-orangeade.
    • 1910, Emma Goldman, Mother Earth (1906-1917)‎, page 305:
      The tragedy of a genius towering above its contemporaries does not end with death. The latter merely helps to accentuate more forcibly the insurmountability of inherent contrasts.

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