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IMPRACTICABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impracticableness mean? 

IMPRACTICABLENESS (noun)
  The noun IMPRACTICABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of not being usableplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPRACTICABLENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not being usable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impracticability; impracticableness

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

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

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

infeasibility; unfeasibility (the quality of not being doable)

Antonym:

practicableness (the quality of being usable)

Derivation:

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


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