IMPOSSIBLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impossibleness mean? 

• IMPOSSIBLENESS (noun)
  The noun IMPOSSIBLENESS has 1 sense:

1. incapability of existing or occurring

  Familiarity information: IMPOSSIBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPOSSIBLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapability of existing or occurring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

impossibility; impossibleness

Hypernyms ("impossibleness" is a kind of...):

nonentity; nonexistence (the state of not existing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impossibleness"):

inconceivability; inconceivableness (the state of being impossible to conceive)

unattainableness (the state of being unattainable)

Derivation:

impossible (not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with)

impossible (totally unlikely)