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impossibility

noun/ɪmˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪti/

B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The condition of a contractual obligation that can no longer be performed at all.

Supervening impossibility discharged the hire agreement when the music hall burned down before the concert.

Similar: unfeasibility

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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