Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Impossibility
impossibility, n. [Fr. < L.] (webplay: man).
- Ideal; unseeable essence; imaginative concept; inexpressible underlying reality; unthinkable new idea; image never conceived of before.
- Inaccessibility; unavailability; the unobtainable; that which seems impractical; that which is heretofore unknown; that which previously could not be done.
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