unpossibility

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ possibility.

Noun

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unpossibility (countable and uncountable, plural unpossibilities)

  1. (now rare) Impossibility.
    • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:
      ‘It would be a matter of utter unpossibility,’ replied Legs, [] ‘to stow away in my hold even one-fourth part of that same liquor which your majesty has just mentioned.’