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impossibility

/ɪmˌpɑsɪˈbɪliti/ noun B2
  1. Something that is impossible. (countable, uncountable) · Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; there is no way we can be ready in time.
  2. The quality of being impossible. (uncountable)

Plural impossibilities

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We are still faced with some big difficulties; but anyhow they have ceased to be impossibilities.
The Valley of Fear, p. 42 · C1
Now, to see things which I cannot understand, to procure impossibilities, these are the study of my life.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 666 · C1
Attempt not impossibilities.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 90 · B2
Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 17 · B2

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