## Examples
- He finally accepted the impossibility of finishing the work in one day.
- Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; we simply don't have enough time.

## Antonyms
- certainty
- inevitability
- possibility

## Related Forms
- absurdity

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: impossibilité
- Root: impossibilitās

## Etymology
From Middle French impossibilité, from Latin impossibilitās. By surface analysis, im- + possibility and impossible + -ity.

## AI Etymology
Impossibility comes from Middle French impossibilité, from Latin impossibilitās. By surface analysis, im- + possibility and impossible + -ity. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main senses are “The fact of something being impossible” and “Something that cannot be done or cannot happen”.

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