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The quality of not being usable
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impracticability
Word definitions for impracticability in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of not being usable [syn: impracticableness ] [ant: practicability , practicability ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality or condition of being impracticable. 2 An impracticable thing.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The doctrine of impracticability in the common law of contracts excuses performance of a duty, where that duty has become unfeasibly difficult or expensive for the party who was to perform. Impracticability is similar in some respects to the doctrine of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impracticability \Im*prac`ti*ca*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Impracticabilities . The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility. --Goldsmith. An impracticable thing. Intractableness; stubbornness.
Usage examples of impracticability.
But I soon realized the impracticability of such a plan, for even supposing that I should succeed in finding my way to her heart, was I the man to resist my own success with such a woman?
And though the impracticability of executing the law has caused its repeal in several of the States which had adopted it, including the one from which it derives its name, an attempt has notwithstanding been commenced, and is prosecuted with considerable zeal by many of the professed philanthropists, to agitate for a similar law in this country.