Insurmountability

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being insurmountable. uncountable

    "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."

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insurmountableness

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"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."

Etymology

From in- + surmount + -ability.

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