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infeasibility

infeasibility

1 8.5
A situation where something cannot be done or is not practical
  • noun
  • /ˌɪnfiˈzɪbɪlɪti/
translation icon : inviabilidad
  • This void in practical application or discovery might be due to technological infeasibility, or it may be due to prior exploration insufficiently guided by models.

Examples

  • The infringement of a fundamental right requires a particularly close fit of means to ends and the infeasibility of less intrusive means.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Nor can one miss the fact that the Christian philosophy goes well beyond mere political infeasibility to draw us away from the earth entirely, setting us against every human instinct.

    Academic text (2009)
  • We're not talking mere political, practical, or economic infeasibility here.

    Blog text (30)
  • Thus, Mexico accepted the infeasibility of expecting, at least in the short term, a reduction of the Mexican migratory flow.

    Academic text (1999)
  • One of your most well-known essays is about the infeasibility of space colonization.

    Blog text (20)
  • The company faced the infeasibility of completing the project within the given timeline.

  • Due to the infeasibility of the plan, they decided to seek alternative solutions.

  • She highlighted the infeasibility of traveling to Mars within the next decade.

Synonyms

impossibility
vsinfeasibility
37 5.3

A situation in which something cannot happen

also covers things that are only impractical, not absolutely impossible
impracticality
vsinfeasibility
1 6.8

A situation when something cannot work well in everyday life

is broader and covers absolute impossibility beyond mere unsuitability
inviability
vsinfeasibility
8.5

A situation that is impossible or too difficult to make work

is the common term covering both impossible and impractical cases
unfeasibility
vsinfeasibility
9.3

The fact that something cannot be done

also covers cases that are merely impractical rather than strictly impossible
impossibleness
vsinfeasibility
9.1

A state when something cannot happen or be done

is broader and includes cases considered impractical not only strictly unable
unattainability
vsinfeasibility
9.0

A state of not being able to reach or get something

also includes situations where doing it is impractical rather than unreachable
unattainableness
vsinfeasibility
9.2

The state of being impossible to reach or get

is used more broadly to signal impracticality as well as strict impossibility
impracticability
vsinfeasibility
  • Formal
9.0

A situation where something cannot be done or used in real life

also applies when something is impossible rather than only not practical
impracticableness
vsinfeasibility
  • Formal
9.9

A state in which something cannot be done in real life

is used more for total impossibility in any sense, not only lack of practicality
unworkability
vsinfeasibility
7.7

Impossible or very difficult to make a plan succeed

is the general term that also covers things merely impractical rather than extremely hard

Antonyms

18 4.5

How possible something is to do, like a plan or idea

How Possible

feasibility
18 4.5
possibility
2.0
difficulty
651 2.4
infeasibility
1 8.5
impossibility
37 5.3

Surface Forms

infeasibility singular

Morphology

infeasibility = infeasible (transparent) = in + feas + ible + ity

This is a regular noun formation from the adjective 'infeasible', meaning the state or quality of being infeasible.

Etymology

Infeasibility comes from the prefix in- meaning 'not' and feasible meaning 'possible to do', so it describes the state of being 'not possible' or not practical to do.