[
UK
/ɪmpɹˈæktɪkˈælɪti/
]
NOUN
- concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use
How To Use impracticality In A Sentence
- Clearly this is an impracticality not only for patrons, but for librarians as well.
- I refused the knickers, though, on grounds of rampant impracticality. 2009 July « Tales from the Reading Room
- Sometimes Evie was exasperated at her mother's impracticality.
- The trip's expense and impracticality have cooled government enthusiasm, says National Air and Space Museum historian Valerie Neal.
- The advice was given in the specific context of large-scale arrests and the impracticality of bringing all cases before the courts, where many would receive a caution anyway.
- The Health Professions Council should review its language policy by removing the policy references of 'impracticality' and 'costs' as justifications for the exclusive use of English. ANC Daily News Briefing
- (The impracticality of this option was obviously the whole point.) Matthew Yglesias » Friedman to Palestinians: Suck on This
- She must have been in her early twenties, with a sharp, overstyled haircut and fingernails that announced their impracticality in flashes of silver.
- In the era of the internet and video communications there is also an element of impracticality to such attempts at censorship.
- In all of these exercises, we use incomplete information of varying degrees necessitated by the infeasibility and impracticality of collecting complete information.