noun. The condition or quality of being impossible.

noun. Something impossible.

noun. The quality of being impossible; incapability of being or being done.

noun. That which is impossible; that which cannot be or be done.

noun. Helplessness; impotence.

noun. The quality of being impossible; impracticability.

noun. An impossible thing; that which is not possible; that which can not be thought, done, or endured.

noun. Inability; helplessness.

noun. 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.

noun. Something that is impossible.

noun. The quality of being impossible.

noun. incapability of existing or occurring

noun. an alternative that is not available

"This impossibility is articulated in all sorts of familiar assumptions about the inherent, essential properties of the various media and their proper or appropriate modes of perception."

accessibility  advisability  availability  believability  collectibility  

absurdity  anomaly  blunder  certainty  contradiction  

helplessness  impracticability  inability