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Definition of Impracticality
1. Noun. Concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use.
Specialized synonyms: Idealism
Derivative terms: Impractical
Antonyms: Practicality
Definition of Impracticality
1. Noun. The state or quality of being impractical. ¹
2. Noun. Something which is impractical. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impracticality
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Impracticality
Literary usage of Impracticality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1905)
"This avoids on the one hand the impracticality of the merely external standard,
so far as it would have held the person liable for an apparent act which was ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1917)
"... glimpses into the life of "the pathetic family," and while the father is
revealed as a man of extreme impracticality and even of unwitting selfishness, ..."
3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1907)
"Nor is there any strictly logical impracticality in carrying out the program of
such a pure psychology. But it is fair to emphasize the extremely pale, ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1915)
"Academic narrowness and impracticality are among the worst weaknesses charged
against the schools. Men can contribute certain elements of an education that ..."
5. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century ; The Four Georges, Etc. by William Makepeace Thackeray, Felix Isman, Morris Edmund Speare, Lloyd R. Morris, George Simpson Marr (1917)
"... plenitude of inconsequential oratory, of the fundamental impracticality of
the Irish, it contains social criticism of a peculiarly trenchant quality. ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"At the advice of his friends, the book was not then published; and realizing, in
the revolution of 1848, the impracticality of its visionary philosophical ..."
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