impracticability

English

Etymology

From impracticable +‎ -ability.

Noun

impracticability (countable and uncountable, plural impracticabilities)

1. The quality or condition of being impracticable.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (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.

2. An impracticable thing.

Antonyms

• practicability

Translations

the quality or condition of being impracticable

• Bulgarian: неизпълнимост f (neizpǎlnimost)
• Catalan: impracticabilitat f
• Finnish: epäkäytännöllisyys (fi)
• Manx: roghoilleeid m, neuchooilleentaght f
• Portuguese: impraticabilidade f
• Romanian: impractibilitate

an impracticable thing

• Finnish: epäkäytännöllinen (fi) (adjective)