English-German translations for impossibility

• Unmöglichkeit die
  Dies ist sozusagen die in Stein gehauene Unmöglichkeit. One might as well say that this is impossibility set in stone.
  Heute, rund zehn Jahre später, sehen wir, dass dies keinesfalls eine Unmöglichkeit ist. Today, slightly more than ten years later, we see that this is by no means an impossibility.
  Es ist eine physische Unmöglichkeit, dass der Ausschuss eine eingehende Prüfung der Verwaltung und Buchführung von 30 Einheiten vornimmt. It is a physical impossibility for it to conduct a detailed examination of the administration and accounts of 30 units.

Definition of impossibility

• Something that is impossible
• The quality of being impossible
• The state of being unable to do something

Examples

• Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; there is no way we can be ready in time.

Related words

• impossible
• impossibly
• impossible event
• mission impossible
• Arrow's impossibility theorem
• The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer
• The impossible we do at once; the miraculous takes a little longer
• there is no such word as impossible
• it is impossible