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IMPRACTICALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("impracticality" is a kind of...):
inutility; unusefulness; uselessness (the quality of having no practical use)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impracticality"):
idealism (impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are)
Antonym:
practicality (concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities)
Derivation:
impractical (not practical or realizable; speculative)
