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impossibilité

impossibility

noun am-po-see-bee-lee-TAY Rare

Usage Note

Impossibilité denotes the state or fact of something being impossible. The phrase se trouver dans l'impossibilité de faire quelque chose (to find oneself unable to do something) is a formal construction common in official letters and legal texts. Its opposite is possibilité.

Examples

"Il est dans l'impossibilité de répondre aujourd'hui."

Natural Translation

He is unable to reply today.

Literal Translation

He is in the impossibility of replying today.

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