IMPOSSIBILITY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The quality of being impossible; impracticability. They confound difficulty with impossibility. South.

2.
n.

An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley.

3.
n.

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.


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