impossibility

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The fact of something being impossible.

   He finally accepted the impossibility of finishing the work in one day.

2. 2
   noun

   Something that cannot be done or cannot happen.

   Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; we simply don't have enough time.

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

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