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noun

Impossibility n. (pl. impossibilities)

The quality of being impossible; impracticability. "They confound difficulty with impossibility."

An impossible thing; that which is not possible; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. "Impossibilities! O, no, there's none."

Inability; helplessness. (R.)

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Impossibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... of most of the community to a fractional part of its productive power, thereby in turn correspondingly crippling the latter, you have the open secret of the poverty of the world before the Revolution, and of the impossibility of any important or lasting improvement from any source whatever in the economic circumstances of mankind, until and unless private capitalism, of which the profit system with rent and interest were necessary and inseparable parts, should be put an ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

... Lery, the King's engineer, charged with the fortification of the Colony, a man of Vauban's genius in the art of defence. Had the schemes which he projected, and vainly urged upon the heedless Court of Versailles, been carried into effect, the conquest of New France would have been an impossibility. ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... give up those feverish nights of excitement? the hazard and the stimulus of the long tables and the little heaps of gold dust? and her free life, her incomings and outgoings, with no one to question her? No, it was an impossibility. ...

— A Girl of the Klondike • Victoria Cross

... say that this is an impossibility—here is one point about which we are at issue:—very good. And do you mean to say also that if he meets with retribution and punishment he ...

— Gorgias • Plato

... encouragement to the boy who, for any one of a thousand reasons, cannot take four years or four months from his life of continuous toil in order to go to college?" asked a young man full of the vitality of purpose, but to whom even the education of our high schools was an absolute impossibility. ...

— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge

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