impossibility

Other forms of impossibility

plural

impossibilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about impossibility

What does impossibility mean?

impossibility means "incapability of existing or occurring". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impossibility?

impossibility has 6 syllables: im-pos-si-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˌpɔsɪˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for impossibility?

Close synonyms include impossibleness, impossible action. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of impossibility?

The recorded antonyms are possibility.

Is impossibility a common word?

impossibility is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with impossibility?

48 words rhyme with impossibility. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.