Dictionary entry

Impossibility

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Im‐pos′si‐bil″i‐ty (?), n.; pl.Impossibilities (#). [L. impossibilitas: cf. F. impossibilité.] 1. The quality of being impossible; impracticability.

They confound difficulty with impossibility. South.

2. An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured.

Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley.

3. Inability; helplessness. Latimer.

Logical impossibility, a condition or statement involving contradiction or absurdity; as, that a thing can be and not be at the same time. See Principle of Contradiction, under Contradiction.