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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Im·pos·si·bil·i·ty n.; pl. Impossibilities
 1. The quality of being impossible; impracticability.
    They confound difficulty with impossibility.   --South.
 2. An impossible thing; that which is not possible; that which can not be thought, done, or endured.
    Impossibilities! O, no, there's none.   --Cowley.
 3. Inability; helplessness. [R.]
 Logical impossibility, a condition or statement involving contradiction or absurdity; as, that a thing can be and not be at the same time. See Principle of Contradiction, under Contradiction.
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