infeasibility.

The inability of a proposal or action to be carried out under given conditions.

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Words that belong together

• technical infeasibility
• infeasibility of a plan

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Technical infeasibility ruled out the proposed arrangement with the available equipment.

The finding of infeasibility applied to the current budget, not every possible design.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.