Thesaurus: impossibility

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1. n. The quality of being impossible; impracticability.
2. n. An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured.
3. n. Inability; helplessness.
4. n. incapability of existing or occurring
5. n. an alternative that is not available
6. 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.
7. n:100 n. incapability of existing or occurring n. an alternative that is not available