IMPOSSIBILITY

impossibility, impossible action

(noun) an alternative that is not available

impossibility, impossibleness

(noun) incapability of existing or occurring

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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

Synonyms

• (something that is impossible): See also impossibility

Antonyms

• (something that is impossible): certainty, inevitability, possibility; See also possibility

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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