Impracticability

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or condition of being impracticable. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the quality of not being usable wordnet
  3. 3
    An impracticable thing. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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impracticablenessimpracticalityunpracticability

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From impracticable + -ability.

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