impossibility
Americannoun
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the state or quality of being impossible
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something that is impossible
Etymology
Origin of impossibility
1350–1400; Middle English impossibilite < Late Latin impossibilitās. See im- 2, possibility
Example Sentences
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She said: "I went back to work post maternity leave. It has always felt impossible. Every day has felt like an exercise in logistical impossibilities, and we got through it."
From BBC
But escape from the irritations of that companionship seems a still bleaker prospect—and an impossibility.
It also feels like this enormous amount of pressure and impossibility, and that you’re in a David and Goliath struggle.
From Los Angeles Times
To Andrew Friedman, something like this was a virtual impossibility.
From Los Angeles Times
Their famously contentious relationship made an Oasis reunion seem like an impossibility, until it wasn’t.
From Salon
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