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# impossibility

«impossibility» in Mova's school dictionary: **the state of being impossible: something that cannot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (impossibility, impossibilities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Impossibility is the state of being impossible: something that cannot happen or cannot be done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#m1)

2) An impossibility is a thing that cannot happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, probability lessons say an impossible event has a probability of 0, such as rolling a 7 on a normal six-sided dice. In logic, an impossibility is something that contradicts itself, like a square circle. In stories, heroes face near-impossibilities. Phrases: a near impossibility, a physical impossibility, a logical impossibility.

### examples

- Rolling a 7 on one normal dice is an impossibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#x1)
- Winning without practice is close to an impossibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#x2)
- A square circle is a logical impossibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#x3)
- Being in two places at once is a physical impossibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#x4)
- Getting a ticket was almost an impossibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#x5)
- The impossibility of the task made them want to try harder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#x6)
- They declared that the problem would never be solved, that the thing was an impossibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/#x7)

### note

Countable and uncountable. In maths, impossible = probability 0; very unlikely is not the same as impossible (probability above 0). Adjective: impossible.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impossibility» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibility/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.