impossibility

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪmˌpɒsɪˈbɪliti/
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• General-American: /ɪmˌpɑsɪˈbɪliti/
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• rhymes with -ɪlɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 M P AO2 S IH0 B IH1 L IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French impossibilité, from Latin impossibilitās. By surface analysis, im- + possibility and impossible + -ity.

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُسْتَحِيل (mustaḥīl) — something that is impossible
• Danish: umulighed — something that is impossible
• Dutch: onmogelijkheid — something that is impossible
• Esperanto: neeblaĵo — something that is impossible
• Finnish: mahdottomuus — something that is impossible
• French: impossibilité — something that is impossible
• Greek: αδύνατο (adýnato) — something that is impossible
• Greek: ακατόρθωτο (akatórthoto) — something that is impossible
• Greek: αδυναμία (adynamía) — something that is impossible
• Greek: απιθανότητα (apithanótita) — something that is impossible
• Greek: κατόρθωμα (katórthoma) — something that is impossible
• Greek: παρεμπόδιση (parempódisi) — something that is impossible
• Polish: niemożliwość — something that is impossible
• Northern Sami: veadjemeahttunvuohta — something that is impossible
• Asturian: imposibilidá — quality of being impossible
• Azerbaijani: qeyri-mümkünlük — quality of being impossible
• Azerbaijani: mümkünsüzlük — quality of being impossible
• Bulgarian: невъзможност (nevǎzmožnost) — quality of being impossible
• Catalan: impossibilitat — quality of being impossible
• Chinese Mandarin: 不可能 (bùkěnéng) — quality of being impossible
• Czech: nemožnost — quality of being impossible
• Danish: umulighed — quality of being impossible
• Dutch: onmogelijkheid — quality of being impossible
• Esperanto: neebleco — quality of being impossible
• Esperanto: neeblo — quality of being impossible
• Estonian: võimatus — quality of being impossible
• Finnish: mahdottomuus — quality of being impossible
• French: impossibilité — quality of being impossible
• Galician: imposibilidade — quality of being impossible
• Georgian: შეუძლებლობა (šeuʒlebloba) — quality of being impossible
• Old Georgian: ვერშეძლება (veršeʒleba) — quality of being impossible
• Old Georgian: ვერშეძლებაჲ (veršeʒlebay) — quality of being impossible
• German: Unmöglichkeit — quality of being impossible
• Greek: αδύνατο (adýnato) — quality of being impossible
• Greek: ανέφικτο (anéfikto) — quality of being impossible
• Hungarian: lehetetlenség — quality of being impossible
• Italian: impossibilità — quality of being impossible
• Japanese: 不可能 (fukanō) — quality of being impossible
• Kyrgyz: мүмкүнсүздүк (mümkünsüzdük) — quality of being impossible
• Latvian: neiespējamība — quality of being impossible
• Macedonian: невозможност (nevozmožnost) — quality of being impossible
• Plautdietsch: Ommäajlichkjeit — quality of being impossible
• Polish: niemożliwość — quality of being impossible
• Polish: niemożność — quality of being impossible
• Portuguese: impossibilidade — quality of being impossible
• Romanian: imposibilitate — quality of being impossible
• Russian: невозмо́жность (nevozmóžnostʹ) — quality of being impossible
• Northern Sami: veadjemeahttunvuohta — quality of being impossible
• Serbo-Croatian: nemogúćnōst — quality of being impossible
• Serbo-Croatian: немогу́ћно̄ст — quality of being impossible
• Spanish: imposibilidad — quality of being impossible
• Swedish: omöjlighet — quality of being impossible
• Ukrainian: неможли́вість (nemožlývistʹ) — quality of being impossible