impracticability
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From impracticable + -ability.[1]
Noun
[edit]impracticability (countable and uncountable, plural impracticabilities)
- The quality or condition of being impracticable.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- An impracticable thing.
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the quality or condition of being impracticable
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an impracticable thing
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References
[edit]- ^ “impracticability, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
