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IMPRACTICABLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impracticableness mean?
• IMPRACTICABLENESS (noun)
The noun IMPRACTICABLENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of not being usable
Familiarity information: IMPRACTICABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being usable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
impracticability; impracticableness
Hypernyms ("impracticableness" is a kind of...):
inutility; unusefulness; uselessness (the quality of having no practical use)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impracticableness"):
infeasibility; unfeasibility (the quality of not being doable)
Antonym:
practicableness (the quality of being usable)
Derivation:
impracticable (not capable of being carried out or put into practice)
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