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impassability

  • a word derived from impassable.
    impassable
    adjective
    not passable; not allowing passage over, through, along, etc..

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Indeed, the very fact of that impassability may have made his intercourse with them the easier—at any rate, on his side.

From Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne

He spread his great arms, as if to emphasize the impassability of the barrier which confronted her.

From The Penalty by Howard Chandler Christy

Travellers keep coming in with stories of the impassability of the roads and the carrying away of bridges.

From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

The muscles of Jehan le Loup's face twitched for a moment, but he clinched his fingers tightly to restrain himself and answered with a surly impassability, "How should I know, my lord?"

From If I Were King by Justin McCarthy

"First we must disprove its impassability," I replied.

From Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs