impossibility

English

Etymology

From Latin impossibilitās.

Noun

impossibility (countable and uncountable; plural impossibilities)

1. Something that is impossible.

   Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; there is no way we can be ready in time.

2. (uncountable) The quality of being impossible.
   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 2

     ...he threw himself upon her, and his back being now towards me, I could only take his being ingulph'd for granted, by the directions he mov'd in, and the impossibility of missing so staring a mark...

Translations

The quality of being impossible

• Dutch: onmogelijkheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: neebleco (eo), neeblo (eo)
• Finnish: mahdottomuus (fi)
• French: impossibilité (fr) f
• Greek: αδυναμία (el) (adhinamía)

• Hungarian: lehetetlenség (hu)
• Romanian: imposibil (ro) n, imposibilitate (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: nemogúćnōst (sh) f
• Spanish: imposibilidad (es) f