impracticality

Other forms: impracticalities

Definitions of impracticality
  1. noun
    concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use
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    antonyms:
    practicality
    concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities
    types:
    idealism
    impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
    romanticism
    impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
    knight errantry, quixotism
    quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior
    type of:
    inutility, unusefulness, uselessness
    the quality of having no practical use
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