inviability

Examples

• All

• The lack of a countervailing Soviet deterrence in this matter must be considered a catalyst that triggered and thereby revealed the de facto inviability of the U.S. war option in reasserting America's global hegemony.

  Academic text (1993)

• Many experts debated the inviability of the proposed solution to the problem.

• Due to its inviability in the harsh climate, the plant species could not thrive.

Synonyms

I

impossibility

vsinviability

37 5.3

A situation in which something cannot happen

also includes cases that are merely impractical rather than strictly impossible

I

impracticality

vsinviability

1 6.8

A situation when something cannot work well in everyday life

extends meaning to include outright impossibility as well as unsuitability

I

infeasibility

vsinviability

1 8.5

A situation where something cannot be done or is not practical

covers both absolute cannot-do and situations too hard to put into practice

U

unfeasibility

vsinviability

9.3

The fact that something cannot be done

focuses more broadly on both inability and impracticality rather than only inability

I

impossibleness

vsinviability

9.1

A state when something cannot happen or be done

places more weight on real-world difficulty than pure inability

I

impracticability

vsinviability

• Formal

9.0

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

leans more toward complete inability as well as practical difficulty

I

impracticableness

vsinviability

• Formal

9.9

A state in which something cannot be done in real life

also covers outright cannot-be-done cases as well as impractical ones

U

unworkability

vsinviability

7.7

Impossible or very difficult to make a plan succeed

covers both cannot-be-done scenarios and ones too impractical to use

U

unattainability

vsinviability

9.0

A state of not being able to reach or get something

focuses more on doing or using problems rather than only reach or obtain issues

U

unattainableness

vsinviability

9.2

The state of being impossible to reach or get

is broader, covering both reach limits and practical execution problems

Antonyms

F

feasibility

18 4.5

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

V

viability

• Specialized

6 6.6

Whether a living thing can grow and survive

How Feasible

feasibility

18 4.5

possibility

∞ 2.0

difficulty

651 2.4

inviability

8.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology