IMPRACTICABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impracticability mean? 

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

1. the quality of not being usable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPRACTICABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not being usable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impracticability; impracticableness

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

inutility; unusefulness; uselessness (the quality of having no practical use)

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

infeasibility; unfeasibility (the quality of not being doable)

Antonym:

practicability (the quality of being usable)

Derivation:

impracticable (not capable of being carried out or put into practice)

 Context examples 

Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)