impossibility, impossible action
(noun) an alternative that is not available
impossibility, impossibleness
(noun) incapability of existing or occurring
Source: WordNet® 3.1
impossibility (countable and uncountable, plural impossibilities)
Something that is impossible.
(uncountable) The quality of being impossible.
(obsolete) The state of being unable to do something.
Synonyms: inability, incapability, helplessness
• (something that is impossible): See also impossibility
• (something that is impossible): certainty, inevitability, possibility; See also possibility
Source: Wiktionary
Im*pos`si*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Impossibilities. Etym: [L. impossibilitas: cf. F. impossibilité.]
1. The quality of being impossible; impracticability. They confound difficulty with impossibility. South.
2. An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley.
3. Inability; helplessness. [R.] Latimer. Logical impossibility, a condition or statement involving contradiction or absurdity; as, that a thing can be and not be at the same time. See Principle of Contradiction, under Contradiction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 June 2025
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
