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The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.

The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.

being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.

Intractableness; stubbornness.

The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners.

The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.

The quality of being imputable; imputableness.

The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness. "The inaccessibility of the precipice." Bp. Butler.

Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness. Berkeley.

Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.

Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.

The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.

The quality of being inaudible; inaudibleness.

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.

Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness. 'T is folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate. Glanvill.

The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.

quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability. The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith. South.

The quality of being inconceivable; inconceivableness. The inconceivability of the Infinite. Mansel.

d figure. Locke. -- In`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*ceiv"a*bly, adv. The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any subject to possess it. A. Tucker.

Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.