incompossibilityn.
/ɪnkəmpɒsɪˈbɪlɪti/ Now rare.
The quality or condition of being incompossible; total incompatibility. Also, with plural, an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > quality or condition of being incompatible
incompatibleness1608
incompatibility1611
incompossibility1629
incompetibilitya1660
incoherence1665
incompetibleness1727
1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence ii. 314 Whether wee respect the contrarietie of their naturall dispositions, or the incompossibilitie of their projects and engagements.
1630 T. Randolph Aristippus (1652) 3 What should this Scotus meane by his possibilities and incompossibilities? My Cooper, Rider, Thomas and Minsheu are as farre to seek as myself.
1742 C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents 66 By reason of some great Disproportion or Incompossibility.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vi. 170 The Incompossibility, or the fact that the two Judgments cannot both be true.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant Introd. v. 83 The incompossibility of different things (i.e. the impossibility of different things existing together).
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