Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being insurmountable.
He dried his eyes. His aunt saw the insurmountability of the difficulty, and they drowned feeling in an affectionate glass of green-orangeade.
1885, George Washington Cable, Richard Hooker WIlmer, Dr. Sevier, J. R. Osgood and Company, page 1952 more examples
But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, the difficulties of the ascent, which is very steep, would be increased even to insurmountability.
1877, John Joseph Henry, Account of Arnold's Campaign Against Quebec, J. Munsell, page 171The tragedy of a genius towering above its contemporaries does not end with death. The latter merely helps to accentuate more forcibly the insurmountability of inherent contrasts.
1910, Emma Goldman, Mother Earth (1906-1917), page 305
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Hungarian leküzdhetetlenség
- leküzdhetetlenségthe state or quality of being insurmountable
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