Impossibility \Im*pos`si*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Impossibilities}. [L. impossibilitas: cf. F. impossibilit['e].] 1. The quality of being impossible; impracticability.
They confound difficulty with impossibility. --South.
2. An impossible thing; that which is not possible; 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}.
But the impossibility of verifying compliance casts doubt on these and other such efforts.
Austrian economics emphasizes spontaneous order and the impossibility of planning.
"It's more an impossibility than a possibility," says a Korean Air spokesman.
The statement said the royal suspension was legal under the constitution, which provides for the removal of the monarch if he or she is deemed to be "in the impossibility" of executing his functions.
Even foreign comparisons are meretricious because of the near impossibility of comparing like for like and the constant shifts in exchange rates. He also failed to recognise the profound effect of variables specific to the industries.
But he (I can not imagine any businesswoman being attracted to such a car) has to put up with an unacceptable level of noise on all but the smoothest roads. Even worse is the impossibility of making the Scorpio keep a straight line on a motorway.
Alan Greenspan recently referred to the impossibility of predicting how and when the US will emerge from a recession based on debt problems the like of which have not been seen for 60 years.
From here on, Jerry Brown is a mathematical impossibility and Paul Tsongas is mathematically improbable,' said Mr Charles Dolan, co-ordinator for the Clinton campaign in Virginia, which is the next state to vote.
To contain the oil is almost an impossibility," he added.
That, the study said, is a scientific impossibility, adding that federal law should have flexibility to allow for uncertainties.
He can't. Circumcision has made it a physical impossibility.
But after the charges aired in the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, gentlemen have been heard moaning about the impossibility of romance ever developing when its first tentative signs could be suspect.
The report said a U.S. policy requiring the Department of Energy to build a deep underground nuclear dump that is absolutely assured of being safe for 10,000 years is a scientific and engineering impossibility.
Chemical weapons are seen as another area in which Mr. Gorbachev's speech has set the table for a public relations coup because of public failure to understand the virtual impossibility of adequate verification, one official said.