Synonyms:
impossibility, impossible_action
Meaning: an alternative that is not available
Synonyms:
impossibility, impossibleness
Meaning: incapability of existing or occurring
Usage examples
Impossibility of "sulphation." 8.
There is something inside me that makes it an absolute impossibility.
Impossibility of "buckling" and harmlessness of a dead short-circuit.
And mending the highroads is an impossibility; and as soon as they put up bridges they're stolen."
Thus a contradiction emerged between the apparent nature of space and time and the supposed impossibility of infinite collections.
The pursuit of this subject belongs to ethics, where the impossibility of deducing what ought to be from what is has to be established.
My reason was convinced by my eyes; and the phantoms of impossibility which I had conjured up were dissipated by the work of my own hands.
Now, however, owing to the labours of the mathematicians, notably Georg Cantor, it has appeared that the impossibility of infinite collections was a mistake.
So many people want to talk about themselves, or their affairs, that it is in many circles almost an impossibility to maintain a high and elevating conversation.
It seems to me that in this matter he has been betrayed into denying plain facts in the interests of a theory, namely, the supposed impossibility of introspection.