Usage of "impossibility"

russo

невозможность

português

impossibilidade

espanhol

impossible

catalão

impossibilitat

Something not possible; quality, condition, or fact of being impossible.

possibility

Related terms

condition

impossibilidade

espanhol

imposibilidad

Excuse for the nonperformance of duties under a contract, based on a change in circumstances, the nonoccurrence of which was an underlying assumption of the contract, that makes performance of the contract literally impossible.

impossibility of performance

imposibilidad

An alternative that is not available.

impossible action

Usage of impossibility in inglês

He thought for a moment of the impossibility of the last statement. 
 The woman who died a lot 

We at once saw the impossibility of removing so great a weight. 
 Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 

His attempt to prove the impossibility of the quadrature appeared in 1645. 
 A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I 

With the weight of Gaspar thrown in, the thing became an impossibility. 
 The Rangeland Avenger 

For many, garnering the funds necessary is it itself a factual impossibility. 
 Jamaica Observer 

The impossibility of forming intimacies calculated to be injurious in after life. 
 Elizabeth Fry 

All recognized that they were in the presence of an apparent impossibility. 
 The Cruise of the Jasper B. 

The impossibility of asserting himself in any manner galled his very soul. 
 The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows 

There was neither impossibility nor improbability in any of the three propositions. 
 The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F... 

The most striking element is the basic impossibility of this happening again. 
 The Guardian 

Trevor brings these characters, trembling, to a point of ambiguity or impossibility. 
 The Guardian 

A life of invalidism made consecutive labor of any kind an impossibility. 
 Authors and Friends 

None, indeed, was reserved; Boden seeing the impossibility of carrying it away. 
 Oak Openings 

To the successful reporter an impossibility is only an opportunity in disguise. 
 Practical English Composition: Book II. / For the Second Year of... 

He admitted the impossibility of such indifference, almost in spite of himself. 
 Sant' Ilario 

The situation seemed to me of the most exquisite and appropriate impossibility. 
 The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Sy... 