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Etymology

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From impracticable +‎ -ability.[1]

Noun

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impracticability (countable and uncountable, plural impracticabilities)

  1. The quality or condition of being impracticable.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, [], →OCLC:
      It is more than possible that the distress I was now in for money, and the impracticability of going on in this manner, might have restored me at once to my senses and to my studies, had I opened my eyes before I became involved in debts from which I saw no hopes of ever extricating myself.
  2. An impracticable thing.

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  1. ^ impracticability, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.