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Definition of Insolubility

1. Noun. The property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve.

2. Noun. The quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid.

Definition of Insolubility

1. n. The quality or state of being insoluble or not dissolvable, as in a fluid.

Definition of Insolubility

1. Noun. The quality of being insoluble ¹

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Definition of Insolubility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insolubility

insolates insolating insolation insolations insole insolence insolences insolencies insolency insolently

insolents insoles insolidity insolubilities insolubility (current term) insolubilize insolubilized insolubilizes insolubilizing insoluble

insoluble soap insolubleness insolublenesses insolubles insolubly insolvable insolvably insolvated insolvencies

Literary usage of Insolubility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Inorganic Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science by Thomas Graham (1866)
"Influence of insolubility. — The great proportion of chemical reactions which we witness are exhibited by bodies dissolved in water or-some other menstruum, ..."

2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"insolubility is another force, which essentially modifies the exertion of affinity. ... insolubility, however, under certain circumstances, is a force which ..."

3. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"CHAPTER XLVIII THE ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT OF 1904 Apparent insolubility of the Egyptian question—Gradual change in public opinion—-Statement of Lord ..."

4. A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason: Translated from The by Kuno Fischer, John Pentland Mahaffy (1866)
"This very formula explains the insolubility of the problem. " Accordingly, the question is no longer," says Kant, "about the community of the soul with ..."

5. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"The apparent insolubility of these problems afforded welcome support to the Sophists in their denial of knowledge ; but they afterwards gave a lasting ..."

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